The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.

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