The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish may survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.