The blue catfish is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 catfish and the yellow color denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.