The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.

Ill. angler pulls possible record catfish from Mississippi The angler pulls possible record catfish from Mississippi - Ill. world record is 121.8 pounds, set in January 2004 at Lake Texoma near Denison, Texas. -