Flathead catfish is a local species to the U. S. . Although they originally came from the Mississippi Stream and the big streams that drain off it, flatheads have been transplanted and can now be found in waters across the land due to their acclaim as a game fish and food.
Flatheads can be found in slow-moving water such as large streams 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, distinctly flattened heads. Their eyes are flat and oval formed, and their lower jaw protrudes past their upper jaw. They come in shades of mottled browns and yellows.
Forty- to fifty-pound flatheads are usually caught in streams and lakes. Flathead catfish that are over one-hundred pounds have reportedly also been caught.
After hatching, flathead catfish grow swiftly. They are mature when they are about fifteen to nineteen inches long, and can live for over twenty five years. They grow steadily all though their life time. Flatheads will eat virtually anything they can get in their gigantic 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 are not local. Some smaller streams in Georgia have lost nearly all their redbreast sunfish after the advent of flatheads.
Flatheads tend 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 stream bends. Look for enormous logjams, tree stumps, and rocks where they like to lie low. Cast under the perimeters. Let your bait drift in, and then hang on. If the outside bends are too powerful to fish, find some within bends with less current.
In giant lakes and reservoirs, look out for the massive flatheads in areas with masses of cover -- like submerged brush piles. Flatheads often travel in old river and creek channels in these lakes and reservoirs. At night, they will travel these channels and emerge at the fringe of shallows to feed. Position yourself along these areas and wait for them to arrive.
You will have better results fishing for flathead catfish in the early morning, dusk, and after dark in the summer months. Though flatheads will take bait in the daytime, they won't go far to do so.
You'll need to become familiar with the body of water you're fishing in and where flatheads are in order to get the bait close enough to them. Keep your catfish bait on the brook or lake bottom. Flathead catfish feed off the bottom most of the time.
Flatheads can be found in slow-moving water such as large streams 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, distinctly flattened heads. Their eyes are flat and oval formed, and their lower jaw protrudes past their upper jaw. They come in shades of mottled browns and yellows.
Forty- to fifty-pound flatheads are usually caught in streams and lakes. Flathead catfish that are over one-hundred pounds have reportedly also been caught.
After hatching, flathead catfish grow swiftly. They are mature when they are about fifteen to nineteen inches long, and can live for over twenty five years. They grow steadily all though their life time. Flatheads will eat virtually anything they can get in their gigantic 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 are not local. Some smaller streams in Georgia have lost nearly all their redbreast sunfish after the advent of flatheads.
Flatheads tend 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 stream bends. Look for enormous logjams, tree stumps, and rocks where they like to lie low. Cast under the perimeters. Let your bait drift in, and then hang on. If the outside bends are too powerful to fish, find some within bends with less current.
In giant lakes and reservoirs, look out for the massive flatheads in areas with masses of cover -- like submerged brush piles. Flatheads often travel in old river and creek channels in these lakes and reservoirs. At night, they will travel these channels and emerge at the fringe of shallows to feed. Position yourself along these areas and wait for them to arrive.
You will have better results fishing for flathead catfish in the early morning, dusk, and after dark in the summer months. Though flatheads will take bait in the daytime, they won't go far to do so.
You'll need to become familiar with the body of water you're fishing in and where flatheads are in order to get the bait close enough to them. Keep your catfish bait on the brook or lake bottom. Flathead catfish feed off the bottom most of the time.
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