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They can reach as large as 115 pounds and are considered an excellent food fish. Blue catfish are voracious feeders targeting prey like shad crayfish blue crabs and mussels to reach weights of between 40 and over 100 pounds.
Their spawning behavior is similar to a channel.
Average lifespan of a blue catfish. The average lifespan of the blue catfish is almost a decade although certain blue catfish have been known to live to be 25 years old. How do they reproduce. The reproduction process of a blue catfish takes place once annually between the months of April and June.
The fish can live to 20 years. The native distribution of blue catfish is primarily in the Mississippi River drainage including the Missouri Ohio Tennessee and Arkansas Rivers The Des Moines River in South Central Iowa and the Rio Grande and south along the Gulf Coast to Belize and Guatemala. 20 - 45 inches.
3 - 40 pounds Approximate Maximum Size. About 120 pounds in recent years although in the 1800s 300-pound fish were caught from the Missouri River. South Carolina State Record.
109 pounds 4 ounces 1991 Life Expectancy. After a few days the fries venture out on their own. Blue catfish become sexually mature when they reach 24 inches long.
The maximum lifespan of a blue catfish is around 20-25 years. Like channel catfish the blue catfish pursues a varied diet but it tends to eat fish earlier in life. Although invertebrates still comprise the major portion of the diet blue catfish as small as four inches in length have been known to consume fish.
Individuals larger than eight inches eat fish and large invertebrates. Blue catfish commonly attain weights of 20 to 40 pounds and may reach weights well in excess of. 16 - 24 years.
Blue catfish can reach weights of 50 pounds or more which means they can be the dominant predator all other species. Channel cats on the other hand seldom exceed 10-12 pounds in a small closed system. When does a blue cat become a significant player in the food chain.
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With an average depth of 30 feet and reaching 100 feet at the John H. Kerr Dam the lake is popular for recreational fishing and the occasional trophy blue catfish. Lake Texomain Texas has produced a number of record catfish over the years but this 121-pound 8-ounce trophy blue caught by Cody Mullenixon January 16 2004 landed him in the IGFA world record books.
Mullenix was bait. Blue catfish have an average life expectancy of 9 to 10 years but can live to ages upward of twenty years. Their life expectancy does not exceed 25 years a record set in Virginia in the Rappahannock River.
Life expectancies can range from river to river with rivers in Virginia being better suited at producing older and larger catfish. In Maryland electrofishing surveys produced blue catfish. Reproduction of the Blue Catfish When they reach about five years of age these fish begin to reproduce yearly.
The male builds a nest and uses pheromones to attract a female. A blue catfish will also have 30 -36 anal fin rays. Coloration is usually slate blue faded to a white belly.
Biology and Life History. The blue catfish is the largest freshwater sport fish found in Texas. They commonly weigh 20-40 pounds and can live up to 40 years.
They can reach as large as 115 pounds and are considered an excellent food fish. Their spawning behavior is similar to a channel. Diet Size and Lifespan.
Blue catfish are voracious feeders targeting prey like shad crayfish blue crabs and mussels to reach weights of between 40 and over 100 pounds. These fish are bottom dwellers but will happily attack baitfish and other prey above the water bottom. During the late 1800s there are reports of blue catfish in the Mississippi River that exceeded 350 pounds in weight.
Blue catfish can grow to be larger than 100 pounds. One caught in an inland lake on the VirginiaNorth Carolina border weighed 143 pounds. The Chesapeake Bay record is a blue catfish caught in the James River that was 102 pounds.
Blue catfish are highly productive and create high numbers of offspring each reproductive cycle. They spawn once a year from late May into June mostly in lower-salinity streams. These fries stay in a school and eat small insects until they are ready to venture out on their own about 2-3 weeks.
Most catfish are mature by the time they are 12 inches long. A catfishs average lifespan is about 15-20 years. Catfish are monogamous meaning they have only one mate during spawning season.
It can grow to lengths of 5 feet and 5 inches and weigh up to 150 pounds. The average lifespan of the blue catfish is 20 years. Blue catfish live in main channels tributaries and impoundments of.
Pictus catfish will usually live between 8-10 years. Most of the fish will live for that long however you can do some things to make sure they live for that long or even exceed the lifespan. A lot of it comes down to their genetic material.
However you can increase their lifespan with these few simple tips that you can incorporate right now. Depending on the species catfish can live from eight to 20 years though the Mekong giant catfish lives more than 60 years. Almost 3000 species of catfish have been catalogued throughout the world but it is thought that as many as 4500 exist.
The Mekong giant catfish is the largest species of catfish. It can grow to 10 feet and weigh up to.