The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish should live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.