The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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