The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 lbs.. The current contender for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 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 age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.