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The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.
World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 mud cat and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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world record blue catfish