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The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. Today's competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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