The forktail cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The 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 Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.