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The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
