The silver cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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