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The blue catfish is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
captured 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 spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.
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