The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered pounds. The current rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.