The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.