The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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

VOLUME 6 THE OF LOWER ST. JOHNS RIVER BASIN RECONNAISSANCE - text Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLYour browser may not have a PDF reader available. Google recommends visiting our File version of this document-. shrimp landings vary from about 0.9 million to 1.6 million pounds per year - Largemouth pursued black crappie, other sunfishes, and catfish remain the most bass, -