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The blue catfish is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs.,
caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.
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world record catfish pic
