The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current competition for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.