The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current rival for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. 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 to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.