The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.

Fishing Catfish Robby Robinson's site with some good pics of his Kitty Cat cats other and he and - Catfish bite good in Georgia in the fall, as these pictures show. -