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The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The channel catfish 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 represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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