The silver cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.