The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.