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The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.
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124 catfish pound