The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.

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