The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured 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 channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.