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The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.
The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also 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 mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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