The forktail cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example 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 also known 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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