The hump back blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.

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