The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.