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The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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