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The blue is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current competitor for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
