The forktail cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, 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 wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.