The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. 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 before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known 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 flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

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