The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught 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 river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.