The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.