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The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.
Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.
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world record blue catfish
