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The blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.
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