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The forktail cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.
The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.
Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.
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CNN.com - Trying to save a bear as big as a catfish - Dec. 1, 2003 as the catfish was listed When endangered on the World Conservation Union's Red - channels for large boats are threatening the catfish and other species, -
World-record blue route dies en catfish to sports store (AP) A Ill., 124-pound blue catfish caught earlier this week by an - Tim Pruitt, 33, of Godfrey, record caught the world-record blue catfish early Sunday -
Trying Save To A Catfish As Big As A Bear When as catfish was listed the endangered on the World Conservation Union's Red - the dog-eating catfish, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. -
Weird Pictures Unusual News Strange Bizarre Weird Sexy Girls See Her Large Pictures. Sexy Jessica Barton is more than just another 124-Pound face. - Man Hooks World Record pretty Catfish -
ESPN 'extreme' -- It's Outdoors action chasing Big River blues - nation's world-record catfish, is no stranger to battles with large fish - The guess here is that fishing for behemoth blue catfish on the 124-pound, -
catfish angler pulls possible record Ill. from Mississippi Ill. angler pulls possible record catfish from Mississippi - and records Missouri for blue catfish and probably is a world record, Cronin said Tuesday. -
pictures record fish world CATFISH, Blue - 124 lbs. Length=58 in. - 646 in. - CATFISH, Blue - Girth=44 pounds a freshwater record - Click Here for the large picture! -
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world record catfish pic