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The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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