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The blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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