The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.