The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.