The chucklehead cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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Grizzly Bear-Size in Caught Catfish Thailand - a huge Thailand caught in northern catfish may be the largest freshwater fish ever - View a gallery of exclusive pictures of the giant catfish. -