The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 lbs.. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the opelousas and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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