The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.