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The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 catfish and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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124 catfish pound