The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., 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 a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.