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Catfish and Carp
Some fish prefer live bait, others like artificial lures, and many species will even eat cut bait. But the catfish is one of the few, if not the only one that will eat almost anything. Its willingness to gobble up whatever it finds on the bottom has been the undoing of many a catfish. Catfish come in all sizes, live in any kind of water and seem to be hungry all the time. You can catch catfish from 5 or 6 inches long to 9 feet long. They weigh anywhere from a few ounces to well over 100 pounds. From dwarf-sized ones to the monsters found in Europe, they come in a rainbow of colors, including yellow, blue, brown, silver, white, redtail, ...
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Some fish prefer live bait, others like artificial lures, and many species will even eat cut bait. But the catfish is one of the few, if not the only one that will eat almost anything. Its willingness to gobble up whatever it finds on the bottom has been the undoing of many a catfish. Catfish come in all sizes, live in any kind of water and seem to be hungry all the time. You can catch catfish from 5 or 6 inches long to 9 feet long. They weigh anywhere from a few ounces to well over 100 pounds. From dwarf-sized ones to the monsters found in Europe, they come in a rainbow of colors, including yellow, blue, brown, silver, white, redtail, ...
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Blue Catfish Fish Species Information
| Scientific Fish Name: | Ictalurus furcatus |
| Other Fish Species Names: | blues, cats |
| Regions Fished: | Blue catfish are distributed primarily in the Mississippi River drainage including the Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Arkansas rivers. These large catfish have also been introduced in a number of reservoirs and rivers, notably the Santee Cooper lakes of L |
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| Additional Information:
30-35 anal fin rays, anal fin margin is straight, caudal fin is deeply forked. Blue catfish are opportunistic predators and will eat any species of fish they can catch, along with crayfish, freshwater mussels, frogs, and other readily available aquatic food sources (some blue catfish have reportedly attacked scuba divers.) Catching their prey becomes all the more easy if it is already wounded or dead, and blue cats are noted for feeding beneath marauding schools of striped bass in open water in reservoirs or feeding on wounded baitfish that have been washed through dam spillways or power generation turbines. |
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