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The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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