The blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish should live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.

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