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Comment by John Sheehan on January 1, 2016 at 8:17am

Gary I didn't Bullhead fish this year and besides the occasional Bullhead when I was a kid I didn't target them till up to 5 or so years ago . I ,like you , used a 1 or 1/0 baitholder  hook .I use a sliding sinker pinched off by a small split shot and six lb. test on spinning rod and Reel, A hot dog chunk is my usual bait and a good size that covers the hook shank . My problem is they always swallowed the hook and I'm looking into circle hooks so I can release them .  Certain waters I catch them in I don't want to keep and eat them .I would like to target them  in another body of water I'm fond of keeping occasional fish from however .

Comment by carl hendrix on December 31, 2015 at 7:03pm

Gary;; your telling how old you are ! LOL--  but ; Im that old to !!!

Comment by Gary Kamatchus on December 31, 2015 at 5:14pm

John, To answer your question, back in the late 1950's everyone fishing bullheads that I knew used a large hook maybe size 1 or 0/1 and 3/4 to 1 1/2 oz. football style slip sinker with a wire swivel tied in the line about 18" up from the hook that served as a sinker stop, this way a bullhead could bite & pull the line without detecting a drag in it, we'd wait for 3 quick bites in a row then set the hook hard and pull him in. We used night crawlers for bait (blew them up fat with a needle air bottle) and back then everyone kept the bullheads, they would freeze them in 1/2 gallon milk cartons and water.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 31, 2015 at 1:16pm

PSS Thanks for the memories Gary. My first recollection of bullhead were the little brownies caught in MN ponds are my family's home in Wyoming, MN.
They literally infested most waters and could always be caught. They were small, bite size, and voracious. For a kid, they were ideal.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 31, 2015 at 1:13pm

PS my bait was good old "garden hackle," aka, "red wiggler" worms.
(Which are actually manure worms, but who's counting).

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 31, 2015 at 1:10pm

The last bulkhead I caught was about 5 years ago in a local pond.
I was fishing the outer corners of an indentation in a weedline, as I could reach them from shore. I was distracted by a school of shiners and when I looked back, my float was gone.
That black bullhead was at least three pounds and as long as my forearm. It was the biggest I had ever seen.

Comment by John Sheehan on December 31, 2015 at 12:36pm

Sounds great Gary . What size and style hook and size bait do you feel is most efficient for catching Bullheads considering release as well as keeping some for the pan ?

Comment by Gary Kamatchus on December 31, 2015 at 12:17pm

Hello, I just had to join the Bullhead group, I grew up & worked in our fishing resort (over 50 years ago) my folks owned here in southern Minnesota, 10 miles from a small town called Waterville which claims to this day to be "The Bullhead Capital Of The World" . I remember seeing some people back then trading a few Walleye for a big bunch of fat bullheads (bullheads were king). Our customers were mostly from Iowa and everyone who fished usually could limit out (100 fish) on big bullheads. "The Good Old Day's".

Comment by Jim Gronaw on November 15, 2014 at 9:35pm

Thanks, Ken. We've been blessed with some excellent small lakes that have some very nice channel cats in them. I think I posted some pics of some impressive blue cats from the Potomac and James Rivers in Jeffrey Abneys' 'Big and Ugly' discussion group.

Comment by Slip Sinker on November 15, 2014 at 7:12pm

i really enjoy the stuff in fisherman has put out. doug stange is a great fisherman... a fish magnet.

awesome cats Jim and Matt... you should post those monsters in the bragger board so they wont get lost in this discussion thread. give us guys something to target in the future. those will be tough to top.

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