The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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