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The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.
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