The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, 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 known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.