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The average adult channel catfish measures at least 12 inches (30 centimeters) long, and weighs between 2 and 4 pounds. The largest specimen on record weighed 58 pounds when it was caught in 1964 by an angler in South Carolina. [12] As channel catfish grow longer, they increase in weight. The relationship between length and weight is not linear.
An angling world record was set in 2005 with a 124 lb, was caught on May 22 that year in the Mississippi River, [18] [19] surpassing a 121.5 lb specimen from Lake Texoma, Texas. The hand-line record is a 107-lb blue catfish on 15-lb-test braided line caught June 5, 2015 on the Potomac River using a sausage with a circle hook.
The wels catfish lives in large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers. It prefers to remain in sheltered locations such as holes in the riverbed, sunken trees, etc. It consumes its food in the open water or in the deep, where it can be recognized by its large mouth. Wels catfish are kept in fish ponds as food fish.
Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...
38 lb Ferox Brown Trout caught by old Willie Maule. Evidence destroyed by fire. 8 lb Burbot largest ever recorded in England, caught from the river Trent around 1700–1800. No date/also method of capture unknown. 83lb 4oz Mirror Carp "Big Plated" caught from Wingham syndicate carp lake in Kent, November 2017.
Noturus, madtoms. Prietella. Pylodictis. Satan. Trogloglanis. The Ictaluridae, sometimes called ictalurids, are a family of catfish native to North America, where they are an important food source and sometimes fished for sport. The family includes about 51 species, some commonly known as bullheads, madtoms, channel catfish, and blue catfish.
The brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) is a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis). It was originally described as Pimelodus nebulosus by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819, and is ...
Mekong giant catfish are one of the largest species of freshwater fish. In 2005, the Mekong giant catfish attained the Guinness World Record for the world's largest freshwater fish. [4][5] Attaining a length of up to 3 m (9.8 ft), the Mekong giant catfish grows extremely quickly, reaching a mass of 150 to 200 kg (330 to 440 lb) in only six ...