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The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.
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