The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins 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 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.

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