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The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the opelousas and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.
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