The blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish may live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.

Freshwater Fish Picture Here Is - WORLD RECORD Pink Salmon Caught On A #114 50/50 Dick Nite Spoon On The (111 cm) around blue catfish that weighed a whopping 124-pounds (56 kg). -