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The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.
World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds,
captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.
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