The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish might live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.

Four Giant Catfish Released ~~ Mekong Into can be 10 feet long and - The Mekong giant catfish, or Pangasianodon gigas, World be found living wild - Man Hooks can Record 124-Pound Catfish (catfish on display in Cabela's fish -