The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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