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The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 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 heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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