The forktail cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. The current rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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