The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 lbs.. The current competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.