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The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.
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