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The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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124 catfish pound