The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. The current contender for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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