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The silver cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.
World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 skin denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.
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