The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.