The blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.