Flathead catfish is a native species to the United States. Although they originally came from the Mississippi Brook and the big brooks that drain off of it, flatheads have been transplanted and can now be found in waters across the nation due to their popularity as a game fish and food.
Flatheads can be discovered in slow-moving water like enormous brooks and streams, and also in lakes and ponds. They like to reside in deep water with objects like fallen logs that provide good hiding places.
Flathead catfish are so named for their long, clearly flattened heads. Their eyes are flat and oval shaped, and their lower jaw sticks out past their upper jaw. They come in shades of mottled browns and yellows.
Forty- to fifty-pound flatheads are typically caught in brooks and lakes. Flathead catfish that are over one-hundred pounds have allegedly also been caught.
After hatching, flathead catfish grow swiftly. They are mature when they're about 15 to nineteen inches long, and can live for over twenty five years. They grow continuously all though their life time. Flatheads will eat just about anything they can get in their large mouths, but they prefer fish. Bream are one of their fave foods.
They also like to eat live perch and sunfish. Flathead catfish can destroy the population of some categories of sunfish, especially in smaller bodies of water, or water where they don't seem to be local. Some smaller streams in Georgia have lost almost all their redbreast sunfish after the arrival of flatheads.
Flatheads have a tendency to feed by sight, and will feed at night as well as during the day -- even though most catfish tend to be more active at night. You can lure flatheads with light. They'll come to feed on the baitfish that are drawn to the light.
Flathead catfish like deep holes with cover on the outside edges of brook bends. Look for enormous logjams, tree stumps, and rocks where they like to hole up. Cast under the sides. Let your bait drift in, and then hang on. If the outside bends are too strong to fish, find some inside bends with less current.
In enormous lakes and reservoirs, look for the big flatheads in areas with lots of cover -- like submerged brush piles. Flatheads frequently travel in old river and creek channels in these lakes and reservoirs. At night, they'll travel these channels and appear at the edge of shallows to feed. Position yourself along these areas and wait for them to arrive.
You'll have better results fishing for flathead catfish in the early morning, early evening, and after dark in the summer months. Although flatheads will take bait during the day, they won't go far to do it.
You'll have to become acquainted with the expanse of water you're fishing in and where flatheads are in order to get the bait sufficiently close to them. Keep your catfish bait on the river or lake bottom. Flathead catfish feed off the bottom most of the time.
Flatheads can be discovered in slow-moving water like enormous brooks and streams, and also in lakes and ponds. They like to reside in deep water with objects like fallen logs that provide good hiding places.
Flathead catfish are so named for their long, clearly flattened heads. Their eyes are flat and oval shaped, and their lower jaw sticks out past their upper jaw. They come in shades of mottled browns and yellows.
Forty- to fifty-pound flatheads are typically caught in brooks and lakes. Flathead catfish that are over one-hundred pounds have allegedly also been caught.
After hatching, flathead catfish grow swiftly. They are mature when they're about 15 to nineteen inches long, and can live for over twenty five years. They grow continuously all though their life time. Flatheads will eat just about anything they can get in their large mouths, but they prefer fish. Bream are one of their fave foods.
They also like to eat live perch and sunfish. Flathead catfish can destroy the population of some categories of sunfish, especially in smaller bodies of water, or water where they don't seem to be local. Some smaller streams in Georgia have lost almost all their redbreast sunfish after the arrival of flatheads.
Flatheads have a tendency to feed by sight, and will feed at night as well as during the day -- even though most catfish tend to be more active at night. You can lure flatheads with light. They'll come to feed on the baitfish that are drawn to the light.
Flathead catfish like deep holes with cover on the outside edges of brook bends. Look for enormous logjams, tree stumps, and rocks where they like to hole up. Cast under the sides. Let your bait drift in, and then hang on. If the outside bends are too strong to fish, find some inside bends with less current.
In enormous lakes and reservoirs, look for the big flatheads in areas with lots of cover -- like submerged brush piles. Flatheads frequently travel in old river and creek channels in these lakes and reservoirs. At night, they'll travel these channels and appear at the edge of shallows to feed. Position yourself along these areas and wait for them to arrive.
You'll have better results fishing for flathead catfish in the early morning, early evening, and after dark in the summer months. Although flatheads will take bait during the day, they won't go far to do it.
You'll have to become acquainted with the expanse of water you're fishing in and where flatheads are in order to get the bait sufficiently close to them. Keep your catfish bait on the river or lake bottom. Flathead catfish feed off the bottom most of the time.
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