The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also 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 appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.

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