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The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.
World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.
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