The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish can survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.