The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.