The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 lbs.. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

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