The forktail cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 lbs.. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.