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The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.
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