The forktail cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.