The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.