The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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

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