The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 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 spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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