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The silver cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 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 before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.
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124 catfish pound