The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, 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 a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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