The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 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 five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish can survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.