The hump back blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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