The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 goujon and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.