The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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