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COOL FACTS About Channel Catfish:
• Oklahoma’s record channel catfish weighed 35 pounds 15 ounces, caught in 2005 by Gary
Doak Jr. at Taft Lake.
• Statewide daily limit is 15 channel or blue catfish combined, with no size limit for channel cats.
• They are common statewide in streams, ponds, and reservoirs.
• They have a forked tailfin as does blue catfish, while flathead catfish have a rounded tailfin.
• When taken from clean waters, they make excellent table fare.
• Catfish feed more by taste and touch than by sight.
• They are omnivorous, feeding on a wide variety of organic matter, dead and alive.
• Some of the more common foods are fish, mussels, snails, insects, and crayfish. USFWS
JIM RATHBURT/MISSOURI DEP. CONS.
Color a Critter: Channel Catfish
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