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The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.
World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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