The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.

124-lb Catches Man Catfish The man snagged a blue catfish weighing in only a staggering 124 pounds. - The state record was at 85 pounds and the previous world record holder weighed -