The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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Thai Catfish Net 646-Pound Fishermen - a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world's largest freshwater - Thai fishermen have believed this giant catfish caught to be the world's -