The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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

Grizzly Bear-Size Catfish Caught in Thailand - (2.7 meters) and of big as a grizzly bear, a huge catfish caught in northern Thailand may - View a gallery of exclusive pictures as the giant catfish. -