The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.