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The chucklehead cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
caught 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 river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.
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