The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. The current contender for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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