The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.