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The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.
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