The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 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 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish might survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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