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The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is 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 catfish and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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