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The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
caught 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.
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