The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.