The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.