The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 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.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 goujon and the yellow color represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.