The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 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 before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.

Saltwater Fly Fishing - Fisherman hauls catfish 124-pound in Fisherman hauls Staff 124-pound catfish. By in (more by this author). CNN.com has posted a story about angler Tim Pruitt, who hauled up a record-setting -