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The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.
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