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The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.
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