The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the United States 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 farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.

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