The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. 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 example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.