fisherfanatic
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| 15 Sep 2010 05:06 AM |
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Heres a few pictures of some bullhead I caught about a month ago. The picture quality is terrible!  14"  9"  The pictures were taken by my cell phone. |
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fisherfanatic
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JoeB
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| 16 Sep 2010 08:42 PM |
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Uncle Tom,
Speckled cats are channel cats, Bullheads are excellent eating if small and the breaded and fried roe is quite a treat. Don't bother to fillet them just fry 'em up whole and strip them like corn on the cob. |
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UncleTomJigs
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| 17 Sep 2010 08:25 AM |
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Greenlantern, thanks very much for your help. However, I am still confused? My Dad who is 84 and has hardly ever missed a day fishing. He says these "speckled cats" were once called "government cats" and were released during the days of the great depression--hoping they would grow and people would have something to eat. In the NAFC book entitled Catfishing Strategies on page 8 there is a channel catfish with a few spots but on page 20 there is another picture of the fish I am trying to find out about and it is called a brown bullhead. How about some input from you seasoned fisherman? I started to say
oldtimers but someone might take offense and none was intended, especially since I belong in that group. Uncle Tom
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fisherfanatic
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| 17 Sep 2010 02:49 PM |
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Posted By UncleTomJigs on 17 Sep 2010 09:25 AM
Greenlantern, thanks very much for your help. However, I am still confused? My Dad who is 84 and has hardly ever missed a day fishing. He says these "speckled cats" were once called "government cats" and were released during the days of the great depression--hoping they would grow and people would have something to eat. In the NAFC book entitled Catfishing Strategies on page 8 there is a channel catfish with a few spots but on page 20 there is another picture of the fish I am trying to find out about and it is called a brown bullhead. How about some input from you seasoned fisherman? I started to say
oldtimers but someone might take offense and none was intended, especially since I belong in that group. Uncle Tom
I read a book that refered to Brown Bullhead as "government cats". The "speckled cats" term refers to Channel Catfish. |
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jstratton3
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| 17 Sep 2010 04:52 PM |
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Where I fish(,Hoffman park in Lansdowne P. a) Flat head bite after rain storm in murky water. They love bacon but so do the eel and snappinn turtle so you better bring needel nose pliers or your out alot of hooks. what they lack in size they make up in strenth. |
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fisherfanatic
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| 17 Sep 2010 05:22 PM |
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Here's the Bullhead pictures I tried to post: 14"  12"  I know, the picture quality is terrible! Good luck and good fishing! |
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mr bill
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| 17 Sep 2010 10:00 PM |
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multi, great pic of a brown bullhead.....even thou the head and body look out of portion to one another.
i was shown how to clean bullheads by an oldtimer many years ago...and i got to were i could clean a bullhead or a small cat in less then a minute........
grab head of fish....by placing thumb on one side of spine and fore finger behind the other spine, with the dorsel spine against the skin between the thumb and fore finger......
take knife and make a slice from behind dorsel spin all the way back to tail.....just through the skin.....
then make a cut from top of fish, just behind dorsel fin, like yer going to cut off head-- as you make this cut start to lift fish up by head a bit , what this does is parts the spine enough to cut throu-- it may take some practice to get it right.
now lay knife down and grab the fish on both sides of the dorsel spine and snap down ward-- like yer breaking a stick
now reach into opening and stick right hand fore finger into stomach cavetity and pull apart
when done right you will be holding in yer right hand nothing but meat on the back bone and in the left hand the head and skin of the fish
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mr bill
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| 17 Sep 2010 10:04 PM |
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that has been the easies way i found to clean a cat or bullhead instead of filleting and like greenlatern said, roll in milk then flour and just enough oil to cover half of the fish and fry...about 5 minutes on one side, then roll over for another 4. dang good eating there |
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vweeks
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| 18 Sep 2010 06:28 AM |
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Okay great, now here comes the fun part. How do you guys cook your bullheads? Is there any secret recipe? Should the skin stay on?  |
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fisherfanatic
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| 18 Sep 2010 11:52 AM |
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Posted By mr bill on 17 Sep 2010 11:00 PM
multi, great pic of a brown bullhead.....even thou the head and body look out of portion to one another.
i was shown how to clean bullheads by an oldtimer many years ago...and i got to were i could clean a bullhead or a small cat in less then a minute........
grab head of fish....by placing thumb on one side of spine and fore finger behind the other spine, with the dorsel spine against the skin between the thumb and fore finger......
take knife and make a slice from behind dorsel spin all the way back to tail.....just through the skin.....
then make a cut from top of fish, just behind dorsel fin, like yer going to cut off head-- as you make this cut start to lift fish up by head a bit , what this does is parts the spine enough to cut throu-- it may take some practice to get it right.
now lay knife down and grab the fish on both sides of the dorsel spine and snap down ward-- like yer breaking a stick
now reach into opening and stick right hand fore finger into stomach cavetity and pull apart
when done right you will be holding in yer right hand nothing but meat on the back bone and in the left hand the head and skin of the fish
I did nothing to distort the pictures. In that particular pond, the bullhead are extremely fat. Their gut area usually has a much larger circumference than around the rest of the fish's flank. Why they're so fat, I don't know. That pond has high numbers of small shiners and Bluegill. That might be the reason. Most of them started to kick while the picture was taken, too. Also remember, I did take these pictures with a cell phone (without a flash) at night. I've got another picture of one I'll try to post soon. Good luck and good fishing, Mr. Bill.  |
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bassmasterbk
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| 18 Sep 2010 05:17 PM |
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Is i better to fish at night of day for them? |
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mr bill
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| 18 Sep 2010 05:23 PM |
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night......but you can get them during the day too.......just like cats |
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vweeks
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| 18 Sep 2010 08:11 PM |
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Posted By slipperybob on 14 Sep 2010 06:00 PM
I catch more bullheads off of a Powerbait soft plastics than I would ever catch on any Powerbait Catfish Dough Bait. I went through a whole package of blood doughbait over one summer and didn't get a single thing.
Are they that aggressive? I thought catfish relied more on smell and vibrations, unless you're using a curlytail worm?? |
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fisherfanatic
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| 18 Sep 2010 08:25 PM |
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I usually catch the most bullhead at night. |
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fisherfanatic
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| 18 Sep 2010 08:25 PM |
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I usually catch the most bullhead at night. |
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slipperybob
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| 18 Sep 2010 09:19 PM |
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Posted By vweeks on 18 Sep 2010 09:11 PM
Posted By slipperybob on 14 Sep 2010 06:00 PM
I catch more bullheads off of a Powerbait soft plastics than I would ever catch on any Powerbait Catfish Dough Bait. I went through a whole package of blood doughbait over one summer and didn't get a single thing.
Are they that aggressive? I thought catfish relied more on smell and vibrations, unless you're using a curlytail worm?? Curly tail grubs, leeches, craw trailers, pulse worms, ....Powerbait soft plastics are well scented. Don't know what it is...it was just one day, the bullheads were just simply chomping down on soft plastics. They were tearing it up so much I had to rebait after a few chomps. |
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slipperybob
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Posted By multispecies101 on 18 Sep 2010 09:25 PM
I usually catch the most bullhead at night. I usually catch the bigger bullhead at night too. |
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fisherfanatic
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| 19 Sep 2010 08:02 AM |
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Here's a nice sized bullhead I caught about 2 months ago: 13.5"  Caught it off a dough ball while fishing for carp. My hands are totally covered with dirt and slime. I'd have to say, those are probably the slimiest fish alive!  |
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vweeks
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| 19 Sep 2010 08:07 AM |
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Posted By multispecies101 on 19 Sep 2010 09:02 AM
Here's a nice sized bullhead I caught about 2 months ago:
13.5"
Caught it off a dough ball while fishing for carp.
very nice |
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