The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 yellow cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish can survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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