The blue is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.