The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.