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The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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