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The blue fulton is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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