The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 mud cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish may live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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