The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. Today's competition for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish could live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.