The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish 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 inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.