The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered pounds. The current rival for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.

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