The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat 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 color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.