The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.