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The forktail cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds 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 to the time before the ice age.
World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.
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world record blue catfish