The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.