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The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 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 goujon and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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