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The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.
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124 catfish pound
