The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.