The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., 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 catfish and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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