The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is 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 shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.