The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is 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 flattened head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.

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