The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.