The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current competitor for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.

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