The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.

UC Davis Summer Magazine, 2004: Big Fish - to save the worlds largest freshwater fishthe Mekong giant catfishand raise - The book intertwines a story catfishs the seasons of a giant of life -