The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. 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 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the second largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

Arkansas' Havens Catfish Offbeat A year after the Wilhelmina giant surfaced, - record-class catfish - catch the next state-record blue or flathead here, perhaps even a world record. another