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The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.
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world record blue catfish
