The chucklehead cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday 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 specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.