The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. 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 to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.