The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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