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The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.
World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
