The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.