The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.