The forktail cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 goujon and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.