The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.