The forktail cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

Catfish Description - Channel catfish closely resemble blue and - Habitat - Blues occur in big rivers catfish. in the lower reaches of major tributaries. -