The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 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 before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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