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The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find 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 largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color represents the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.
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