The forktail cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.

Planet Catfish :: Shane's World :: Catfishology :: In Search of - Ictalurus furcatus, the blue catfish, is native to the Misssissippi, - The current world record, as of 1998, is a 123 pound monster caught in Kansas. -