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Comment by Tony Livingston on November 14, 2014 at 8:11am

This is Flat Albert. He has lived in one of our ponds for over two decades now, the undisputed king of the pond. For the past four years, in the spring, he has come to this concrete pad surrounding an overflow pipe and staked out a nesting spot. Unfortunately for Albert, he is the only one of his kind in residence. He remains hopeful however, and continues to do his best to attract a companion.

I estimate his length at around 32-34".

Comment by Rod Herington on November 14, 2014 at 7:28am

Maybe I ought not say this, but the problem isn't the Flathead. It's ignorant people. A Flathead is a great fish in it's own right. I can see why people enjoy the thrill of catching them, and they are very good eating. But it's kind of like a loaded gun. A gun is not good or bad. It's how it's used or abused. Flatheads are no different.

When you add a top end APEX PREDATOR to a food chain something or many things have to give. The southeast has three of them now. The Flathead, the Blue Catfish, and the Snakehead. Because of ignorance it sounds like all three of them are well on their way to the northeast as well. 

Comment by Jim Gronaw on November 13, 2014 at 8:35pm

Liberty Reservoir, a Baltimore City water supply lake of 3100 acres, was a boyhood place for night time fishing for bullheads from shore with my dad and brother. Mid to late 1960's...what a memory!

Comment by jim cosgrove on November 13, 2014 at 8:03pm

jim thats awesome,dont know what happened to local BH populations.they were the most common fish to catch in my local ponds and lakes.i have not caught i in a few yaers now.it was a blast when one took fly from time to time.we put some flatheads in my club to control the gills a bit but they haven't made a dent.

Comment by John Sheehan on November 13, 2014 at 6:24pm

10-inch ‘Roosters....sounds fabulous Dwayne!

Comment by John Sheehan on November 13, 2014 at 6:24pm

Lets go Jim !

Comment by Jim Gronaw on November 13, 2014 at 6:22pm

Piney Run Lake, a county owned dayuse facility of 300 acres, has lots of big brown bull heads in the 15 inch, 2 pound class and used to have the Maryland state record. I caught a 19 inch bullhead there many years ago that I never weighed, but believe the chubby fish may have gone 4 pounds.

Highlights there now center on tremendous largemouth bass fishing, slab crappies, numerous channels cats and a peaking striper fishery that recently yielded a new lake record of 36 pounds, 6 ounces to my good friend 84 yr old Richard Neuwiller on Oct 8, 2014, from shore!

Comment by John Sheehan on November 13, 2014 at 6:17pm

I sure hope those Flatheads don't find their way into the Shenandoah River in VA .That river has the most beautifully colored Red Breasted Sunfish /Yellow Breasted Sunfish ,I've ever caught and I would hate to see them eliminated by Flatheads .Same goes for the RBS I catch in the Wanaque River minutes away .

Comment by Dwayne Denison on November 13, 2014 at 6:16pm

Everyone may find this interesting.

http://www.georgiawildlife.com/node/3471

Comment by John Sheehan on November 13, 2014 at 6:13pm

In NJ we only have Yellow, Brown and Black Bullheads .Never caught a Black Bullhead that I know of. Yellows are more prolific in the waters I fish but the few Brown BHeads I've caught were good sized (about 1.5 #) There are two lakes nearby where I've caught Channel Cats up to 12 # ,still haven't caught a White Catfish which are around these parts somewhere .

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