The hump back blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 goujon and the yellow color typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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