The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.