The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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catfish Wire | 05/24/2005 | Man hooks world record 124-pound AP Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a 124-pound blue catfish. To get a sense of just is, big that how the state record holder was a mere 85 pounds and the world -