Somehow in the editing process the maps for blue catfish and flathead catfish got flip flopped. If you are studying the range maps, please take this into consideration.
Flatheads are my favorite species. Each individual has its own look and personality/behavior. Earlier this year I caught a 64lb bright orange flathead. If you could see where I caught it, the orange color makes sense. I catch a lot of huge flatheads in the spring by fishing small feeder creeks to lakes where there is a decent white bass population. The white bass run in this area can be epic at times. About 3-5 days after the peak of white bass runs start, I start fishing with the biggest live baits I can get and find choke points in those creeks. It's always older larger flatheads I catch at these times and it sheds some light on older fish and the wisdom they procure over time. They don't follow the white bass run. They move up into these creeks a few days after the run peaks and sit in choke points to basically let the white bass returning to the lake swim right into their mouths. They have plenty of other species to feed on if they move into the creek a few days early. They know those white bass will be coming to them shortly.
Nice, my largest is a flathead, too. Two of them at 28lbs each. Both around April when the river is starting to flood. Love the taste of all cats, but flathead is my favorite.
@bradjohnson482 I eat a lot of channels and we don't really have a lot of blues here But I never keep the flatties because they are my favorite. I had an insane year for flats. Try that white bass thing if you have water like that. Probably about 40% of my flats over 30lb have come that way, I never catch small ones doing that. Considering it is only about a one week window, 40% is crazy good, I catch a lot of flats over 30lb. At that time, my favorite bait is the largest creek chubs I can get. I caught that 64lb two miles up stream of the lake in a creek only 30 yards wide in a choke point less than 10 yards wide. They will stage up on those choke points for a week or so just collecting white bass. Around here the white bass run is the same time the flats start coming out of cold water mode. They gorge, it's their seasonal breakfast. Give it a shot.
I like to catch flatheads and will keep one now and then that falls into the 10lb-15lb range to eat. There are a couple old-timers I catch as repeats from time-to-time that I have come to recognize.
My buddies & I catch lots of huge flat heads out of the Des Moines river here in southeast Iowa. Occasionally a Blue & lots of large channels later in the year. It's a blast.
I think you have the flathead and the blue cat range maps switched. There are no blue cats in Michigan but there are flatheads in southern Michigan . This is a very well done and interesting series.
Great video. Thanks for giving the small bullhead some attention. I think you missed a very common catfish here in north Mississippi. The white humpback? Probably second to the channel in being sought after
A “White humpback” is not its own species, it’s just a blue catfish with different Coulers. For info on them just look what he says about blue cats . It’s like how some pile can be completely silver in some areas, they aren’t a different species just a genetic variation
I caught the nc state record white catfish and didn't realize what it was, I thought it was just a really chunky weird looking channel cat. Released and still swimming.
Great video! I watched the pike one too. Just wanted to make you aware that in Pennsylvania we do have flathead cats in western pa mostly in Ohio, Allegheny and monongahela river with even a few blues caught in the Ohio and at least one reported in the monongahela according to to Fishbrain.
@WildaboutUT I feel like the range idea is an subject that alot of people would like . There's caribou in superior, just northwest of rattlesnakes on the northern shore of Huron and moose in Massachusetts. Google that stuff to much lol . Sorry for the long reply !
Good video, I think the flathead range map may be dated though. Flatheads are in pretty much the entire Greatlakes region, the Michigan state record is a touch over 53 pounds.
Nice video!🙂👍 I know that blue catfish 🎣🐟 use to be common in South Dakota but I have never seen or caught one in South Dakota. Apparently the building of the four dams on the Missouri River in South Dakota disrupted their migration patterns. It also made it so that they could not swim up into the other reservoirs. I currently fish the Jim River which used to be fantastic, but it is not so good anymore because of poor management of putting big red granite boulders below low head dam's, in particular 3rd Street dam in Huron South Dakota, which ends up catching many of the fish and they die.
The world record channel catfish you were talking about was caught by W.H. Whaley out of Lake Moultrie on a buck tail jig back on July 7, 1964. It weighed 58 pounds on the dot, was 47.62 inches long, and had a girth of 29 inches. It’s been 60 years and this record yet to be broken. And I doubt it ever will be. I’ve been fishing that same lake since I was 6, for the past 15 years, my dad’s been fishing it for well over 40 years, and the biggest channel catfish we’ve ever caught out of it was only around 20 pounds.
if you have blue or flathead catfish in the same water, it is possible the channel catfish are being out competed, Alternately, fishing pressure or the lake may have been filling and the enlarging lake encouraged larger fish.
Me and my boys caught a few 7lb kittys on the lower Hob last summer. Was lots of fun! I'le have to go back and look at the pictures to see if I had the species correct.
@@izzlate Sounds like a ton of fun! If they were 7 lb they were definitely channel catfish. None of the bullhead species here in Utah would get that big. Thanks for watching!
He is covering native species. The sailfin of which I am aware is an invasive species from South America (courtesy of idiot pet owners releasing fish when they get too big for the aquarium, like with $%&&&%# lionfish).
nice, also the maps might be a lil outdated because i used to hit a river about 20 mins from my house in NC and would frequently catch big blues and flatheads with an abundance of channels ranging from 11-20lbs and my biggest being a 43lb2oz blue that i caught at 11:40ish at night
I caught a green cat fish bout 16 in long white belly and was huge for it's length , it was probably 10 lbs , it had small eyes , it wasn't a flat head , Ive only caught one of these and never seen one in a book or any of my research, I caught in southern ky in a lake , any ideas on what it would be ?
I live in the Iowa Great Lake area and have been told a number of times there are NO Blue Catfish in this area of Iowa. Lots of what we call Bullheads, Channel and Flat heads but no Blues caught yet.
Never knew the difference between the yellow and black bullhead, these guys are very elusive here in Texas and are mostly found way up river in creeks that hold little water year round. With some sitnkbait or worms your garrumeteed a fun time at the creek
The entire Southern portion of California has Flathead catfish, especially the Imperial Valley lakes , canal's as well as the Alamo, New, and Colorado Rivers.
There's also the gafftopsail catfish and hardhead catfish which are saltwater species. They are really interesting catfish because they are mouth brooders. The males will carry the eggs in their mouths for two months until they hatch. Their stings are also a lot more painful than freshwater catfish!
We have silver catfish,he did not mention those,they are shaped like a channel cat but all gray in color with no spots,they are common in lake Ellsworth here in Oklahoma
I had a channel cast stick me in the stomach with his pectoral fin. The fin broke off inside me from the fish thrashing and my buddy pulling on it we had to cut it off the rest of the way, I have a great scar and it had to be surgically removed, a week later I was back on the boat chasing a bigger one
@@taylorfritz3801 That's a wild story! I know someone who had something similar happen except it punctured their heart and they had to be taken into the hospital with the catfish still attached to his chest. He would have died if they had taken it out beforehand.
@WildaboutUT it was here at utah lake, we waded out into the lake so the infection was pretty bad from water getting into it, let alone the toxins in the fin
Theyre saltwater fish but hardheads might be able to reproduce in freshwater because i have caught them very far away from the coast. Least favorite fish of mine , gaftopsails are actually really good for eating they just slime you up pretty bad
I noticed you didn't list the flathead in Pa they are prolific in Pa as well some very large specimens were caught in my state, the Susquehanna river definitely comes to mind, also some large lakes like Lake Wallenpaupak and private. Lakes were they were introduced like Fairview lake both lakes are located in the Poconos of Pa
Love the video, but arizona has lots of flathead not a crazy amount but definitely some. Places like bartlett lake have 20-50 pounders caught there not too uncommonly and they can even be caught in some desert canals
Great vids, i have great regret that when my coudins bro inlaw caught a large channel around the french river, i figure it was a channel at 15 pounds, ( cuz he was a chef and kept it, stayed sluve in a bucket till driven home 3 hours, but kept in a huge under dock cage until dispatch or what ever, i am a catch n release guy, prefering the dmallies , muskies,( never got one in french area,) and pike , i got a couple 40 inchers as nd the cousin aswell, many big smallies, personal best wally was 33 incher, post spawn,, i m sorry , as i deggress , i should have fished the area proper for cats with cut rockbass or the like, havent been up in moons, oh well, thats the way she goes, very good vids aswell my friend, i believe i just saw your bowfin vid, again , very good, i hate people that kill em, i saw 614 fishing on u tube( i think its called) he found a few dead on the sand bar .....gar too, but he managed to save one ! Great vids bro!
Catfish still often have a garbage fish stigma attached to them..similar to a carp.they are predatory like any other game fish. I myself have even caught them on artificials.probably not the preferred technique. They're a blast to catch and depending on the quality of water they're coming out of. .very good eating. Catfish rule..long live Catfish.
When you mean micro do you mean a species that simply really tiny, or like something similar to a subspecies? As a biologist I love learning this stuff excellent video
Is the Blue Catfish the same as the Hardhead Catfish? Hardheads are common in louisiana salt and brackish waters. Their venomous barbs are notoriously painful.
No, hardhead is a saltwater catfish and when you touch them you will never forget it. Slimey as a hagfish. Use pliers to get them off. Blues will hit the Intercoastal's quite often.
Are the maps the native range? I catch flat head walleye fishing in Lake Erie and have caught them in other North East Ohio reservoirs. Although none have been stocked in the inland lakes since the late 60's. By no means are there huge numbers of fish. I've caught maybe 20 fish over 25 years. Giants to juveniles.
Apaloosa catfish? spelling may be off... I caught several in the Black Warrior River while bass fishing. Very strong fighting fish. Cool mottled look, or spotted look to them. I am told they are delicious.
You have the distribution map between the blue and the flathead reversed. Flathead are by far more dispersed. The blue catfish is far more common in the biggest river system while the flathead is found in most of them in the Midwest
my husband the fisherman says there are 3 species, gafftopsail, and 2 others. Easy to catch and 'appreciated as much as nurse sharks but make decent tarpon bait'.
I live in NC, didn’t know until recently that there are more types of bullheads. We had netted a few small catfish that we thought were just small channels, turns out they’re white bullheads.
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Somehow in the editing process the maps for blue catfish and flathead catfish got flip flopped. If you are studying the range maps, please take this into consideration.
I (a Wisconsinite) was going to post that you could add Wisconsin to the Flathead range and take the Blue out......
@@bobpourri9647haha
There has been flatheads caught in southern ontario
@@christopherrice5887 I think their range is extending. It seems like we have more flatheads now in my neck of the woods than when I was a boy.
I agree we catch flat heads all over south ga
Well done. I'm happy to hear a real human narrating. Subbed.
Human flaws and all! Much appreciated!
Flatheads are my favorite species. Each individual has its own look and personality/behavior. Earlier this year I caught a 64lb bright orange flathead. If you could see where I caught it, the orange color makes sense. I catch a lot of huge flatheads in the spring by fishing small feeder creeks to lakes where there is a decent white bass population. The white bass run in this area can be epic at times. About 3-5 days after the peak of white bass runs start, I start fishing with the biggest live baits I can get and find choke points in those creeks. It's always older larger flatheads I catch at these times and it sheds some light on older fish and the wisdom they procure over time. They don't follow the white bass run. They move up into these creeks a few days after the run peaks and sit in choke points to basically let the white bass returning to the lake swim right into their mouths. They have plenty of other species to feed on if they move into the creek a few days early. They know those white bass will be coming to them shortly.
Nice, my largest is a flathead, too. Two of them at 28lbs each. Both around April when the river is starting to flood. Love the taste of all cats, but flathead is my favorite.
@bradjohnson482 I eat a lot of channels and we don't really have a lot of blues here
But I never keep the flatties because they are my favorite. I had an insane year for flats. Try that white bass thing if you have water like that. Probably about 40% of my flats over 30lb have come that way, I never catch small ones doing that. Considering it is only about a one week window, 40% is crazy good, I catch a lot of flats over 30lb. At that time, my favorite bait is the largest creek chubs I can get. I caught that 64lb two miles up stream of the lake in a creek only 30 yards wide in a choke point less than 10 yards wide. They will stage up on those choke points for a week or so just collecting white bass. Around here the white bass run is the same time the flats start coming out of cold water mode. They gorge, it's their seasonal breakfast. Give it a shot.
I like to catch flatheads and will keep one now and then that falls into the 10lb-15lb range to eat. There are a couple old-timers I catch as repeats from time-to-time that I have come to recognize.
i actually love this series keep it up!
@@jaxonwhite2267 thanks I'm glad you are enjoying it!
Nicely done . Subscribed .
From an old fisherman from near north Ontario Canada
Thanks for watching and subscribing! I hope the video was helpful.
Great video. I wasn't aware we had so many catfish species! I will definitely be using this on my fishing trips.
Nice to see that you added the ranges in canada too thanks
It says north america does it not?
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Everything else i saw on your videos was extremely accurate, understandable flip flop. Keep making your videos I will watch and subscribe good sir!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
My buddies & I catch lots of huge flat heads out of the Des Moines river here in southeast Iowa. Occasionally a Blue & lots of large channels later in the year. It's a blast.
We have black bullhead here on the Oregon coast. Nice job dude!
I've caught spotted bullhead where I live in between 14 and 16"
I’ve caught some almost if not over 20. One in particular was deformed but almost 3lbs
I think you have the flathead and the blue cat range maps switched. There are no blue cats in Michigan but there are flatheads in southern Michigan . This is a very well done and interesting series.
Thank you. Please see the pinned comment.
Hope you make a micro catfish video too. This was a great video. Thanks.
@@longway4442 I think there should be one coming in the future!
very nice video! helped me Identify bullheads near me!
That's awesome! Glad it helped.
Great video, thought I knew more than I did about catfish!
I trap cats year round and I learned about 6 new species I’ve caught in my area
Glad you learned something new!
Great video. Thanks for giving the small bullhead some attention. I think you missed a very common catfish here in north Mississippi. The white humpback? Probably second to the channel in being sought after
A “White humpback” is not its own species, it’s just a blue catfish with different Coulers. For info on them just look what he says about blue cats . It’s like how some pile can be completely silver in some areas, they aren’t a different species just a genetic variation
Just found the channel and subbed after looking at the videos in the Playlists! Great job.
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As a kid I use to catch all of the catfish on the East Coast, I caught the last 3 three also. I lived in the middle of Virginia.
Keep doing the good work! Quality video!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it and I hope it was helpful.
I caught the nc state record white catfish and didn't realize what it was, I thought it was just a really chunky weird looking channel cat. Released and still swimming.
Great video! I watched the pike one too. Just wanted to make you aware that in Pennsylvania we do have flathead cats in western pa mostly in Ohio, Allegheny and monongahela river with even a few blues caught in the Ohio and at least one reported in the monongahela according to to Fishbrain.
Very informative...range of flathead is much larger then shown. I've caught them in susquahanna and delaware river in north easthern pa many times.
Thank you. Please read the pinned comment.
I would love to see your video on salt water catfish.
Good information. Looks like you had fun working on it. And had plenty of expert help. 🐠 Merry Christmas 🎄
@@DarrellLancaster-l5q Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Great video!! Keep the videos coming
@@LumberLineFarmingCountry Thank you for the kind words! There will definitely be more to come!
Well done loved the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for this video
Awsome video! Love stuff like this. Greetings from lake superior
Thank you so much! Someday I'll fish Lake Superior!
@WildaboutUT I feel like the range idea is an subject that alot of people would like . There's caribou in superior, just northwest of rattlesnakes on the northern shore of Huron and moose in Massachusetts. Google that stuff to much lol . Sorry for the long reply !
@@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv I agree, I've always had a really strong interest in range maps. Definitely more videos to come!
I think I know more than I did.thanks!! For the vid
It's great to hear that it helped you learn something new!
Very good video, I found it very interesting
@@davidgarcia9808 thank you for the kind words! I appreciate it.
I just subscribed.
I doubt that I will be able to remember all of this information but I enjoyed it. 😊
Thanks for subbing!
Good video, I think the flathead range map may be dated though. Flatheads are in pretty much the entire Greatlakes region, the Michigan state record is a touch over 53 pounds.
This channel is neat man just subscribed.
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Good video. Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
a good video. btw my husband said he caught white bass in Massachusetts as a child.
Great video
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
Nice video!🙂👍
I know that blue catfish 🎣🐟 use to be common in South Dakota but I have never seen or caught one in South Dakota.
Apparently the building of the four dams on the Missouri River in South Dakota disrupted their migration patterns.
It also made it so that they could not swim up into the other reservoirs.
I currently fish the Jim River which used to be fantastic, but it is not so good anymore because of poor management of putting big red granite boulders below low head dam's, in particular 3rd Street dam in Huron South Dakota, which ends up catching many of the fish and they die.
The world record channel catfish you were talking about was caught by W.H. Whaley out of Lake Moultrie on a buck tail jig back on July 7, 1964. It weighed 58 pounds on the dot, was 47.62 inches long, and had a girth of 29 inches. It’s been 60 years and this record yet to be broken. And I doubt it ever will be. I’ve been fishing that same lake since I was 6, for the past 15 years, my dad’s been fishing it for well over 40 years, and the biggest channel catfish we’ve ever caught out of it was only around 20 pounds.
if you have blue or flathead catfish in the same water, it is possible the channel catfish are being out competed, Alternately, fishing pressure or the lake may have been filling and the enlarging lake encouraged larger fish.
Me and my boys caught a few 7lb kittys on the lower Hob last summer. Was lots of fun! I'le have to go back and look at the pictures to see if I had the species correct.
@@izzlate Sounds like a ton of fun! If they were 7 lb they were definitely channel catfish. None of the bullhead species here in Utah would get that big. Thanks for watching!
I like the video! I think you did miss the sail fin catfish that are extremely common in the south eastern and gulf coast.
He is covering native species. The sailfin of which I am aware is an invasive species from South America (courtesy of idiot pet owners releasing fish when they get too big for the aquarium, like with $%&&&%# lionfish).
I have caught all three of the last Catfish on the Yellowstone River in Montana!
Great video! Ready to get out on the water
Thanks for watching! I hope you catch some big ones!
are those range maps just the native ranges? I ask because Lake Wylie on the NC/SC border has both blues and flatheads
We have blue catfish all over in Idaho and the northwest and flatheads in a lot of fisheries including the Columbia and Snake rivers.
nice, also the maps might be a lil outdated because i used to hit a river about 20 mins from my house in NC and would frequently catch big blues and flatheads with an abundance of channels ranging from 11-20lbs and my biggest being a 43lb2oz blue that i caught at 11:40ish at night
I caught a spotted bullhead in Ridgeland Ms at the Ross Barnett Spillway.
Good info.
Very nice video sir.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Your range map of the flathead is missing the upper Mississippi watershed. Minnesota's state record is 70lbs
Man, I hadn’t fished in years this makes me want to start up again
Glad to hear it! I hope you get started up again!
I think the maps are mixed up for blue catfish and flathead catfish.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. You are correct. I just double-checked and somehow in the editing process they got flip-flopped.
Flathead are found in Pennsylvania as well
There are flatheads and all kinds of bullheads all round the north Florida area
Cool info perch family would be interesting to see
Thanks, that's a great idea!
I caught a green cat fish bout 16 in long white belly and was huge for it's length , it was probably 10 lbs , it had small eyes , it wasn't a flat head , Ive only caught one of these and never seen one in a book or any of my research, I caught in southern ky in a lake , any ideas on what it would be ?
if it were green it might be either a mutant or a martian catfish. How many eyes did it have?
Your range map for the Flathead is a bit off. You can catch them in the Maumee River in OH by Toledo and sometimes in Lake Erie.
I'm just letting you know about this flathead catfish live in Arizona to
Your map is way wrong on flathead. Caught them all the time, big ones, in Minnesota river outside St Peter and Mankato.
Please see the pinned comment
I live in the Iowa Great Lake area and have been told a number of times there are NO Blue Catfish in this area of Iowa. Lots of what we call Bullheads, Channel and Flat heads but no Blues caught yet.
Never knew the difference between the yellow and black bullhead, these guys are very elusive here in Texas and are mostly found way up river in creeks that hold little water year round. With some sitnkbait or worms your garrumeteed a fun time at the creek
Hornpout shout-out! 👍
The entire Southern portion of California has Flathead catfish, especially the Imperial Valley lakes , canal's as well as the Alamo, New, and Colorado Rivers.
You need to update the flathead bit, thay are in most of the freshwater of SC.
There is a pond with spotted bullhead catfish near my house in Jacksonville Florida
There's also the gafftopsail catfish and hardhead catfish which are saltwater species. They are really interesting catfish because they are mouth brooders. The males will carry the eggs in their mouths for two months until they hatch.
Their stings are also a lot more painful than freshwater catfish!
Great watch
Thank you!
I think you got the blue cat and flathead cat range mixed up.
Please see the pinned comment
We have silver catfish,he did not mention those,they are shaped like a channel cat but all gray in color with no spots,they are common in lake Ellsworth here in Oklahoma
Great information
Glad you found it helpful!
I had a channel cast stick me in the stomach with his pectoral fin. The fin broke off inside me from the fish thrashing and my buddy pulling on it we had to cut it off the rest of the way, I have a great scar and it had to be surgically removed, a week later I was back on the boat chasing a bigger one
@@taylorfritz3801 That's a wild story! I know someone who had something similar happen except it punctured their heart and they had to be taken into the hospital with the catfish still attached to his chest. He would have died if they had taken it out beforehand.
@WildaboutUT it was here at utah lake, we waded out into the lake so the infection was pretty bad from water getting into it, let alone the toxins in the fin
@@taylorfritz3801That's pretty crazy. I'm glad you're okay. Didn't realize that happened here locally!
Awesome videos, thankyou
@@ryanbekkers3423 thank you for watching!
I used to catch those spotted bullcatfish in one pond in central Florida and they were never more than 6 inches long.
Didn't include hardheads or gaftops?
This video only listed freshwater catfish
Theyre saltwater fish but hardheads might be able to reproduce in freshwater because i have caught them very far away from the coast. Least favorite fish of mine , gaftopsails are actually really good for eating they just slime you up pretty bad
Awesome video! I wish it was time to cast a line.
@@dirtbiker5863 Agreed! Catfish fishing gets pretty slow here in Utah in the winter.
I noticed you didn't list the flathead in Pa they are prolific in Pa as well some very large specimens were caught in my state, the Susquehanna river definitely comes to mind, also some large lakes like Lake Wallenpaupak and private. Lakes were they were introduced like Fairview lake both lakes are located in the Poconos of Pa
Love the video, but arizona has lots of flathead not a crazy amount but definitely some. Places like bartlett lake have 20-50 pounders caught there not too uncommonly and they can even be caught in some desert canals
Great vids, i have great regret that when my coudins bro inlaw caught a large channel around the french river, i figure it was a channel at 15 pounds, ( cuz he was a chef and kept it, stayed sluve in a bucket till driven home 3 hours, but kept in a huge under dock cage until dispatch or what ever, i am a catch n release guy, prefering the dmallies , muskies,( never got one in french area,) and pike , i got a couple 40 inchers as nd the cousin aswell, many big smallies, personal best wally was 33 incher, post spawn,, i m sorry , as i deggress , i should have fished the area proper for cats with cut rockbass or the like, havent been up in moons, oh well, thats the way she goes, very good vids aswell my friend, i believe i just saw your bowfin vid, again , very good, i hate people that kill em, i saw 614 fishing on u tube( i think its called) he found a few dead on the sand bar .....gar too, but he managed to save one ! Great vids bro!
Catfish still often have a garbage fish stigma attached to them..similar to a carp.they are predatory like any other game fish. I myself have even caught them on artificials.probably not the preferred technique. They're a blast to catch and depending on the quality of water they're coming out of. .very good eating. Catfish rule..long live Catfish.
I think the range of the blue and flat head catfish are mixed up
Flatheads are found as far north as Minnesota
@@Wildman-lc3ur please see the pinned comment
@WildaboutUT oh my bad, thank you
Sweet vid
When you mean micro do you mean a species that simply really tiny, or like something similar to a subspecies?
As a biologist I love learning this stuff excellent video
My largest blu cat was 26 inches long and 10 lbs exactly.
The range map for flatheads is wrong. They get up into Michigan
@@agricola please see the pinned comment.
I live about as far north as you can get in MN and I feel confident saying there are zero channel cat up here.
Is the Blue Catfish the same as the Hardhead Catfish? Hardheads are common in louisiana salt and brackish waters. Their venomous barbs are notoriously painful.
No, hardhead is a saltwater catfish and when you touch them you will never forget it. Slimey as a hagfish. Use pliers to get them off. Blues will hit the Intercoastal's quite often.
@sylton6251 Hardheads are saltwater and brackish water.
What about the salt water catfish?
@@johnh2463 This video just deals with the freshwater catfish. Saltwater catfish may be a subject in the future.
The madtoms make great aquarium fish
Are the maps the native range? I catch flat head walleye fishing in Lake Erie and have caught them in other North East Ohio reservoirs. Although none have been stocked in the inland lakes since the late 60's. By no means are there huge numbers of fish. I've caught maybe 20 fish over 25 years. Giants to juveniles.
@@charlescampisijr.8065Please see pinned comment
Kansas mentioned let’s go!
Apaloosa catfish? spelling may be off... I caught several in the Black Warrior River while bass fishing. Very strong fighting fish. Cool mottled look, or spotted look to them. I am told they are delicious.
I think you may have the flathead and blue cats home range swapped!
No Yaqui catfish?
You have the distribution map between the blue and the flathead reversed. Flathead are by far more dispersed. The blue catfish is far more common in the biggest river system while the flathead is found in most of them in the Midwest
Please see the pinned comment.
You consider the white catfish a micro-species?😊
The white catfish, AKA The white bullhead was included in the video.
Hate to tell you this but Flathead. Catfish is also in the Chattanooga river.
YOOOOOOO IM IN THE VIDEO!!!!
What about the saltwater catfish species?
my husband the fisherman says there are 3 species, gafftopsail, and 2 others. Easy to catch and 'appreciated as much as nurse sharks but make decent tarpon bait'.
Nice video! Watched it while cooking bacon
Bacon and catfish sounds like a good combination!
I live in NC, didn’t know until recently that there are more types of bullheads. We had netted a few small catfish that we thought were just small channels, turns out they’re white bullheads.