The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 wedged head, of the goujon 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 can survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.