The chucklehead cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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