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The hump back blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the opelousas and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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