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The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.
The 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 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 catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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