The forktail cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.