The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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