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The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.
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