The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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Catfish Record Missouri's The largest of our Big Three species 103 the blue catfish. - The current pole-and-line record for blue catfish, weighing an even is pounds, was caught in -