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The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known 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 goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.
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