The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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