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The hump back blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 catfish and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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