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Let's start with a little background and life
cycle of catfish -blues -channel cats, or flathead.

These fish hatch out and are very small ... bottom of the food chain ... the blues and channels have a pretty decent defense with the spines on their sides and dorsal fin that are very sharp and sting like fire when they poke ya ... blue catfish flatheads and channel catfish will feed off their own young sometimes if they're wounded and I've seen big blues that have been skinned alive by larger catfish ... judging by the marks on them I'd have to guess they were other blues or flatheads biting them.

We'll start at the beginning though ... they're very small and have to fend for themselves and are inherently scavengers as they will feed off carcasses or anything they can knip a little morsel of food off of and they grow fairly fast. Once these fish reach about 1.5# they tend to scavenge less and hunt more and when they reach the 3# mark they are predominantly hunters of smaller fish like bluegill, shad, perch, bass, or anything they can catch and devour. Live baits are always best......

Top Ten Facts About Catfish:

1. Catfish are raised in fresh water ponds only about four to six feet deep.
    
2. Farm raised catfish are taught to eat feed pellets that float on top of the water.  Wild catfish are bottom feeders. 
    
3. One catfish can lay up to 4,000 eggs a year per pound of body weight. 
    
4. Young catfish are called "sac fry"  because they still live off of the food supplied by the yolk sacs.
    
5. When catfish reach 4 inches long they are called "fingerlings" (the size of an index finger).
    
6. Catfish are harvested in nets when they weigh about one to one and a half pounds. 
    
7. About 95% of the nation's farm-raised catfish is raised in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana. 
    
8. Catfish is now the 5^th most popular fish in America. 
    
9. Catfish is available all year round. 
    
10. Over 447 million pounds of catfish was produced in 1995.

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