The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.