The forktail cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish can survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.