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The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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124 catfish pound