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The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.
The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.
The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish may survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.
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