The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery 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.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.

ATV Connection Forums in Record Catfish caught - Mississippi river - Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a hours blue catfish. - Caught it about 2 124-pound from me. That's a big catfish, you can bet there's a bigger one out -