The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's rival for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.

ESPN Outdoors -- Catfish blues: Record catch dies in transit A record 124-pound blue man caught earlier this week by an Illinois catfish - Tim Pruitt, 33, of Godfrey, Ill., caught the world-record blue catfish early -