Friday, April 8, 2011

Some Tips For Flathead Catfishing

By George Bowman


For those of us who love catfishing, there's nothing better than setting our lines on the perfect type of water, with high hopes of reeling in a 40 or 50 pounder. But of course, everyone has their own preference of catfishes to catch as well as their favored catfish baits.

Are you thinking about flathead catfishing appropriate now? Well, don't turn back 'coz this is just exactly what your looking for!

Flatheads are a species of catfish native to the US. A flathead's defining features are their clearly flattened and long heads composed of a lower jaw that is longer than the upper jaw.

Don't be surprised when you see or even catch a large, 100-pound flathead! It's actually natural for them because of continued growth in a life span as long as 25 years.

A excellent disguise system is provided to the flatheads through their brown and yellow colors.

Flatheads commonly eat in the early morning and early evening, and at night during the summer months. You can get flatheads to take bait during the day, but you have to know where they are and cast your bait best on top of them. This is because even though flatheads will take bait during the day, they won't go far for it.

Flatheads are bottom dwellers so you should have known it already that baits for flatheads need to be set a few inches from the bottom. This means casting your bait, and then letting it drift in toward the catfish, and down to where they will be feeding. This also means you have to have the patience to let your bait drift where it needs to be!

Although usually a scavenger, a flathead's favorite meal is a exist fish. Examples of which are bream, perch, and sunfish. So live bait when you can, and stinky bait when you can't. Just apply the same rule all over-- the stinkier bait is always the better bait.




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