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The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery 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 pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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