The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.