|
The chucklehead cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 pounds. Today's contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds,
caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
| 
catfish picture