The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish could live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.

Catfish Illinois Fishing world, the biggest blue cat ever caught in the - a monstrous 124-pound lunker. - "There had been several blue catfish in the 80-pound category caught -