blue catfish

White catfish is a darker blue than the blue catfish.

One of those anglers, Oklahoma City's Charles Jones, has quietly caught scads of channel and blue catfish for years using floats.

2007), had already detected in the field some differences in the body proportions of the southern blue catfish specimens when compared with the northern form, mainly the basal length of the anal fin, as well as the head width and length.

The two large (53cm TL) blue catfish show two very different FA isotope profiles.

Challenge studies have shown that blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) exposed to H.

n = 304 Other (5%) Blue catfish (1%) Threadfin shad (2%) Atlantic croaker (2%) Debris (rocks, logs, etc.

7%) Ictalurus punctatus Channel shiner, Notropis wickliffi Emerald shiner, Notropis atherinoides Flathed catfish, Pylodictis olivaris Freckled madtom, Noturus nocturnus Freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens Ohio shrimp, Macrobrachium ohione Striped bass, Morone saxatilis Stonecat, Noturus flavus White bass, Morone chrysops Total number relative Experimental net captured abundance Sand Blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus 3 2.

Juvenile and adult blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus (Lesueur), and juvenile channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque), far outnumbered other species.

Only the channel catfish x blue catfish hybrids demonstrated improved culture characteristics compared to the parental species.

The lake's single catfish standard is a 76-1/2-pound blue catfish landed Dec.

The three major species are the channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish.

Nick Anderson battled the blue catfish for 45 minutes when he landed the 143-pound, 57 inches long blue catfish at Kerr Lake in Virginia.

And Luke Hentges boated a 55-inch blue catfish in the Missouri River.

If the establishment of other non-native species such as flathead catfish is any indication, it seems all but certain that blue catfish are here to stay.

For decades, it's been known that hybrid catfish--a cross of the fast-growing channel catfish with its close relative, the slower growing and larger blue catfish--generally have better growth, higher survival, and better meat yield than either channel or blue catfish.