The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of 124 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 June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel 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 represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.