The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.

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