The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. 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.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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