The blue catfish is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's rival for the United States 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 specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

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