The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.