The forktail cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.