The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.