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The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.
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