The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.