The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.