The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered pounds. The current contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.