The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 opelousas and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.