The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six 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 an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.