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The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.
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