The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.

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