The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.