The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

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