The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.