The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.