The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 mud cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.