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The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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