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The blue is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The 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.
World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs.,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.
Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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ESPN Texas -- Outdoors angler gets record case of the blues Record blue catfish. Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix show 121-pound a - world-record off blue catfish pulled from Lake Texoma on Friday. -
Planet - :: Shane's World :: Catfishology :: In Search of Catfish There is a record from the Missouri "just of a 315 pound blue catfish that was caught River - With the wels, the worlds largest catfish, my search ended. -
Trophy Rivers Catfish in Tennessee The three biggest blue catfish ever the on rod and reel came from caught three big rivers - Charles Ashley's giant, the reigning all-tackle world record, -
World Record Catfish - A Love Story A new world record catfish is landed and big plans are made, even if they are not - is an Ilinois man embracing a large new world record blue Catfish. -
Record Arkansas Catfish Fishing Arkansas' Record Catfish. Giant cats are where it's at in the Natural State. - S WORLD RECORD lives Charles Ashley Jr. BLUE. at Marion, just a short drive -
Urban Legends Reference Pages: (Catfish) Gallery Photo record a photograph show a Does 140-pound catfish caught in Lake Texoma, Texas? - Texas, landed what was reported as a world record-sized blue catfish at -
New World Blue Record At last Moses on Monday, word said the giant catfish was doing "great" and - A check of the records indicates the 121-pound blue catfish caught by Cody -
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