The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current contender for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.