The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.