The blue catfish is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

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

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.

Essex Mountain Sanatorium - Man hooks record 124 lb catfish Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a 124-pound blue catfish. - Re: Man hooks record 124 lb catfish Reply #1 10:34pm May 26th, 2005, on: , Quote Quote -