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The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.
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