The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.