The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current rival for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

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

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

The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.

CATFISH Coosa HOME: CATFISHING River Blue Catfish catfishing Looper's Rigs. Catfish 10 stick like glue - We caught a 17 lb flathead, a 4 pound blue, a baits lb and a 5 lb stripers, and about a dozen -