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It's official: New Richmond teen breaks Ohio record for largest blue catfish ever caught. Ohio fish records in Hook & Line Division. Bass, hybrid striped: 18.82 pounds. 30 7/8 inches. Muskingum River.
Joel Singletary of Florida recently caught the largest catfish ever recorded in the state but missed out on actually setting a record due to a technicality, reports WMBB.. The behemoth fish ...
More: 'Massive' 95-pound flathead catfish caught in an Oklahoma lake Largemouth bass Jim Warner caught this 9.7-pound bass while on vacation from Toronto, Canada, on Lake Toho.
Brachyplatystoma is a genus of catfish from the family Pimelodidae. [1] As the occasionally used common name goliath catfishes indicates, this genus includes some of the largest species of catfish, including the piraíba, B. filamentosum, which reaches up to 3.6 metres (12 ft) in length; though the other species (and indeed most individuals of B. filamentosum) don't reach this length. [2]
Loricariidae is the largest family of catfish (order Siluriformes), with over 90 genera and just over 680 species. [4] Loricariids originate from freshwater habitats of Costa Rica, Panama, and tropical and subtropical South America. These fish are noted for the bony plates covering their bodies and their suckermouths.
It contains one of the largest freshwater fish ever caught, the Mekong giant catfish, which can weigh up to about 300 kilograms (660 lb). [7] It also contains a number of species considered to be some of the smallest vertebrates extant; Danionella translucida at 12 millimetres (0.47 in) in length, and Paedocypris progenetica at 10.3 millimetres ...
The fish broke the old record for length set in 2020 — by 9.5 inches.
The wels is the largest freshwater fish in Europe and Western Asia, only exceeded by the anadromous Atlantic and beluga sturgeon. Most adult wels catfish are about 1.3–1.6 m (4 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in) long; fish longer than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) are a rarity.