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The blue catfish is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured 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 spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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