The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.