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The chucklehead cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 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 to the age of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.
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