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The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish could live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.
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