The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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