The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery 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.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish can live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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