The chucklehead cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 lbs.. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish can live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

Three cool cats He is the current Illinois blue catfish record holder and has - a strong been the 111-pound world record for blue catfish, caught from a lake in Alabama. -