bullhead catch today. This was the second one. In the frez now

I love catching Bullheads! They are fairly easy to catch and on light tackle they put up a nice little fight. I release all I catch, but back when I used to "keep and eat", nothing was better than some fresh caught, fried bullheads! I also like the way they look. A cool little fish! Great fish for kids too!

Great easy fish for kids to catch for sure. Have never eaten BH though. Not crazy about the taste of catfish in general.

I can remember fishing for bullheads at night with my brother and my Dad when I was 12-13 years old. Great fun, and we ate 'em!

Piney Run is a great bullhead lake and we are now giving angler citations for those caught in excess of 15 inches. Let's hear it for tanker bullheads!

caught christmas day I was fishing with a # 6 crappie hook and a minnow.

My first fishing experiences all revolved around bullheads. My Dad would take me out to my Grandpa's pond and we'd knock 'em dead! Lots of 11-12 inchers. Makes me grin just thinking about it.

What does that scale say Rick? Can't quite make it out...

3 1/2lb on the scale

Childhood Hero is my grandfather. I went with him to run trotlines when I was about 6 year old until I was about 10. Big catfish all the time in the river just below the dam in Austin Texas. This was back in the mid 50ths. He took the time to talk to me as that I was a friend not just a kid. Helping him pull in a giant cat fish, being 6 year old a 3lb cat was to me a giant fish, are memories I’ll never forget. This is what I want to pass on to my grandkids.

Bruce -Did you get converted recently or something?Ha!
You are a real champion of the underdogs aren't you!
BTW Is that a Brown BHead in the Avatar?...I only catch White whiskered Yellow Bheads around here in NE NJersey.6-14"ers. Here's my bigbluegill.com Bullhead album: http://www.bigbluegill.com/photo/albums/bullheads-1

WHATS A BULL HEAD?

Jeremy.See the Avatar above.No not Bruce the one below him! :) Smallish catfish.I catch yellow Bullheads (white Barbels ) from 6-14". The one pictured may be a Black Bullhead.There is also a Bullhead shark.

I googled it and did a lil homework. Guess its not somethin common down here!

Picture posted below, is that a brown bullhead? Caught a number of them in a private lake in Fort Lauderdale, all in the the 20-24" inch range.

SURE LOOKS LIKE IT JOSH.I NEVER CAUGHT A BROWN BULLHEAD UP HERE IN NEW JERSEY.
JUST YELLOW BULLHEADS. IS THAT A CHICKEN KIDNEY HE HIT,
I CATCH ON CHICKEN KIDNEYS AND HOT DOG PIECES.
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/fish_id/bullhead.cfm

It was chicken liver wrapped in pantyhose. The thing I'm questioning is the size of the fish we caught. All were in the 20-24" range and from reading up on the browns it doesn't look like they ever get that big. 8-14 is the norm. I'm totally confused and really curious what they were, brown BH or something else. We were catching them at will, just off a sharp drop off about 10 feet from the bank.

This is good!! I love me some bullheads! They are cousins to the "Bullworm"!!!

Anyone ever caught a BHead thru the ice?

Thanks for joining Al! I'm thinking Yellow Bullhead but the barbels aren't clearly photographed and should be white .Still the body color looks like a Yellow Bullhead .

I only find/catch Yellow Bheads here in NE New Jersey.Josh has a photo of what we think is a Brown Bullhead but no one has posted a Black BHead yet.

I've caught small bheads in a small river section on crawfish pieces. They'll swim up off the bottom and grab that bait as its drifting quickly. If there's a Trout nearby he'll beat the BHead to it though !

When I was a kid, if it weren't for bullheads and bluegills I might not have caught any fish at all!

Here you go!!

Here's a little bullhead biology.

http://www.noble.org/Ag/Wildlife/Bullheads/Index.htm

Shhhhh don't tell everyone but the bullheads are going to start biting in Vermont the ice is almost gone took a ride last evening and saw two bonefires where the ice has gone enough to get a hand line in the water. Its like a passage to spring around here.

Psst Howard !When do BHeads spawn? Dont forget to post your Bhead photos!I'll do the same.

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/yellow_bullhead.htm
Yellow Bullheads spawn (breed) from May to early June. First, the male constructs a nest. It's usually a hollowed out area under some structure, such as an underwater stump. Next, the female lays between 2,000 and 5,000 eggs in the nest. The eggs will hatch in five to ten day. Both parents will guard their young until late Summer.

last summer when fishing a small lake my wife and I saw the newly hatched Bullpout they were about a quater inch long and sevral thousand in the school

LAST NIGHT THE WIFE AND i FISHED BULLPOUT WE KEPT 10 TO FILLET MOST OF THE POUT FISHERMEN HAVE MOVED ON

Here is a couple pictures of that possible hybrid bullhead. Dont worry theres still lots of bullhead fishing left, i bet i can catch an uglier one, or prettier one which ever way you look at it.

Sorry for the lousy photos ...not sure what this Catfish species is ...I heard they stocked small Channel Cats in the pond and this lil guy was caught in the brook flowing into that same pond.I catch yellow Bullies with white whiskers around here and I checked the barbels and they were black.Baby Channel Cat? Its been suggested by another BBG member it would have spots if it were. Not sure young fish like this have them though.ANY IDEAS GUYS?

OOPS ,here'

s the other photo

Bullie time!!!

Go bullies!

This Brown

Bullie hit a crankbait trolled at 10-12 feet!!!

Pretty little Brown Bullhead out of the local pond

A face only a fisherman could love

Big Bullhead from south Louisiana. Caught tons of these this size.

Any one catching Bullies this time of year?

 

Here's a snail bullhead I caught on fly last week from a creek by my house in SC.

I'm catchin 'em pretty consistently in the creek behind my house on hot-dog chunks, usually later in the day when it starts to cool down.

Thanks guys .I'm gonna have to give it a shot soon .