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The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. 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 pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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