The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish can live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.