The worlds largest catfish weighed 624 pounds
a catfish caught by Jaden Thomos Just.
your mum, she found in the lake with a dog.
The biggest fish on record for the UK was caught by James Jones at the Oak Lakes Fishery. It was a wels catfish that weighed 114 pounds and took two hours to catch.
The biggest Blue Catfish ever caught was 5.5ft /1.7 meter long and weighed 100 lb / 45 kg. There are however numerous reports of even bigger Blue catfish being caught during the 1800s and if you choose to be believe these reports the biggest catfish ever caught of this species weighed 150lb/ 68kg. This makes it harder to decide this species actual max size but we can conclude that it at least can grow to 5.5ft /1.7 meter and perhaps more.
The catfish that I have caught and cleaned do not have teeth.... These are fresh water catfish.....
# The biggest catfish AND freshwater fish! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/photogalleries/giantcatfish/index.htmlas big as a grizzly bear! # 109& 4oz it was was caught in south Carolina # and the biggest one caught on video (supposedly) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpdF8EzEm0Y
World records for each as followed: Channel catfish- 58 pounds Blue catfish- 109.25 pounds White catfish- 18.88 pounds Yellow bullhead- 4.25 pounds Brown bullhead- 5.50 pounds Flathead catfish- 91.25 pounds well i am not sure about the others but the world record for a blue catfish is a 124 pounds the guy that caught was from Alton Illinois and he caught it in the Mississippi A recent story on the Yahoo home page put the record, along with photos, at 130 lbs for the largest Blue Catfish in the world. Caught on the Missouri River in July of this year using a steel leader and a 40# test line. I was watching River Monsters and Giant Mekong catfish and supposedly weighed 464 pounds although there have been reports of Giant Mekong catfish and some other species weighing as much as 800 to 1000 pounds.
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Yes, they can be caught with live bait.
Wels Catfish, they have been reported to be caught by Russian trawlers weighing upto 600lb, and are thought to be able to grow to 1000lb in some of the Russian lakes where trawlers are not allowed. however, the biggest rod caught Wels is just over 200lb and over 7 foot in length. hope this was helpful :)
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