The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

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