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The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 lbs.. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.
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