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The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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