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The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
