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The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.
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