The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.