All my Fishing gear I use is in my description of each video and joining my channel as a member will get you short text reports of all my fishing outings.
The first flathead I caught was at my parents house like twenty years ago. I thought I had a state record bullhead. When the sun was shining the next day I realized what it was. The way I cooked it was the same way as a channel catfish I didn't drain it or soak it overnight or anything like that I didn't like it as much as a channel catfish. I only just catch maybe one catfish each time when I go out there now. The river has changed and there isn't really any hole there anymore so it has become a sheephead spot and on really nice nights a turtle fishing spot LOL.
You must’ve not cooked it correctly. Flatheads taste WAY better than channels IMO. This is coming from someone that’s been cat fishing for both species for 20+ years.
I've been binging your videos this morning 😂. I want to take my son this year and both catch out first flathead. Any recommendations within 90 minutes of Milwaukee county I can catch fish during the day? Really appreciate all your videos though, thanks for the great info!
I rarely catch them before dark. Only places I’ve done that are Jefferson dam and Danville dam. You have to hover above dams and logjams if you to catch them during the day.
@TheAgileshadow widnr.widen.net/s/xpr8qjhbc2/spearnetelectronic2223, no still the same old rules unfortunately. "Cast nets are illegal to possess or use on any state water, except for taking suckers on Wisconsin/Iowa boundary waters"
@TheAgileshadow I got that from their netting and bait harvest regulations on their website. you can only use landing nets, dip nets, minnow traps, and seines
I usually fish the dam by the boat launch side and I use a lot of sonnys, I get too many turtles with cutbait. Ill be back up 8/16-8/18 to try for flats. Do you get any during the day? Ill be trying bait shop suckers
Believe it or not one of the best baits to use for cats and walleyes are bullheads. At one time the Minnesota State record walleye was caught on one. Just cut off the tail so they don’t burrow in the mud. They stay alive for a long time too. Check your local regulations for live baits first.
@@ancientfishingit drops off 25 or so feet, the snags would be big rocks or trees pushed in from the delton flood, you need a big bait out there or atleast a decent sized one live. Find the edge of the tree take risky casts, you will lose a rig or two but you will catch a giant
@@salmonsteelheader9379 everyone does it lol wisconsin river isn’t some perfect ecosystem either bringing a fuckin bullhead from delton ain’t gonna kill the riverz
Went to sawk city today caught only one moon eye with spinner, went to petenwell after bro caught a good size channel with worm, n a bunch of sheephead after
All my Fishing gear I use is in my description of each video and joining my channel as a member will get you short text reports of all my fishing outings.
The first flathead I caught was at my parents house like twenty years ago. I thought I had a state record bullhead. When the sun was shining the next day I realized what it was. The way I cooked it was the same way as a channel catfish I didn't drain it or soak it overnight or anything like that I didn't like it as much as a channel catfish. I only just catch maybe one catfish each time when I go out there now. The river has changed and there isn't really any hole there anymore so it has become a sheephead spot and on really nice nights a turtle fishing spot LOL.
You must’ve not cooked it correctly. Flatheads taste WAY better than channels IMO. This is coming from someone that’s been cat fishing for both species for 20+ years.
I've been binging your videos this morning 😂. I want to take my son this year and both catch out first flathead. Any recommendations within 90 minutes of Milwaukee county I can catch fish during the day? Really appreciate all your videos though, thanks for the great info!
I rarely catch them before dark. Only places I’ve done that are Jefferson dam and Danville dam. You have to hover above dams and logjams if you to catch them during the day.
Go to one of the dams on the river. You can also fish just about any log jam on the river as long as it is a deep spot. You will get some
how did you catch the shiners? I bought a castnet to use but read its illegal in Wisconsin
Just a small net with a 3ft bamboo handle.
@TheAgileshadow widnr.widen.net/s/xpr8qjhbc2/spearnetelectronic2223, no still the same old rules unfortunately.
"Cast nets are illegal to possess or use on any state water,
except for taking suckers on Wisconsin/Iowa boundary waters"
@TheAgileshadow I got that from their netting and bait harvest regulations on their website. you can only use landing nets, dip nets, minnow traps, and seines
Catching shiners with a net is tougher than it seems lol 😆
I usually fish the dam by the boat launch side and I use a lot of sonnys, I get too many turtles with cutbait.
Ill be back up 8/16-8/18 to try for flats.
Do you get any during the day? Ill be trying bait shop suckers
No, all at night.
Can you tell me the location of where you where fishing in this video?
Yeah, it’s Newport park in the dells. Sandbar is good when the water is low.
@@ancientfishing ok thank you
@@ancientfishing love your video been watching you for like 4 months
@@fishin4life621 thanks for watching
@@ancientfishing Ahh, yes! Right by Rivers Edge Resort, I love staying there and going there to eat and drink! Good times, good times!
I wonder if you could use those small flathead to catch larger flathead? lol
Lobbing a 3lb bait out would be hard. Easier to use the small drums.
@@ancientfishing oh I didn’t realize they were that big I thought a couple were like 10-12 inches.
Believe it or not one of the best baits to use for cats and walleyes are bullheads. At one time the Minnesota State record walleye was caught on one. Just cut off the tail so they don’t burrow in the mud. They stay alive for a long time too. Check your local regulations for live baits first.
We fish that stretch of river on the boat, monsters are everywhere, you need a big live bluegill or bullhead from lake delton
There’s a snag or something about 15 yards out.
@@ancientfishingit drops off 25 or so feet, the snags would be big rocks or trees pushed in from the delton flood, you need a big bait out there or atleast a decent sized one live. Find the edge of the tree take risky casts, you will lose a rig or two but you will catch a giant
Can you use fish from lake Delton for bait there?
@@salmonsteelheader9379 I think so but only from below the spillway since that’s connected.
@@salmonsteelheader9379 everyone does it lol wisconsin river isn’t some perfect ecosystem either bringing a fuckin bullhead from delton ain’t gonna kill the riverz
Best set up for Wisconsin River fishing?
I just use a 2 oz weight either a steel leader of about a foot.
Jabber jabber jabber
Went to sawk city today caught only one moon eye with spinner, went to petenwell after bro caught a good size channel with worm, n a bunch of sheephead after
Sauk city has too many gar.
please have respect for the fish and gently enter them back in the water thanks