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The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish might live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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