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The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current challenger for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 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 Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish can live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.
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