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The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.
The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.
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