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The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005,
find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.
World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs.,
caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 goujon and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.
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world record catfish pic