The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. 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 age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.