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The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.
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