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The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. Today's challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also 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 wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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