The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish may live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.