The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday 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 example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.