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The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
