The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., 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 shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.