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The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.
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