The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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