The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's competition for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.