The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.