The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.