The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.