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The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs.,
captured 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 spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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