The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river 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 represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.