The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.