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The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish should live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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