The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.