The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.