The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 opelousas and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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Fishing Catfish Illinois This is an article Tim the record breaking catch of a 124 pound catfish. - Prairie State catfish angler about Pruitt recently set a fishing record that -