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The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.
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