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The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.
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