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[FishnDave]

Massive head on this flyrod-caught Channel Catfish!

[Harps]

On 1/30/2021 at 9:10 AM, Flysmallie said:

I don’t remember taking the pics but I remember the day. 

That's what lots of Cocaine and "White Crosses" will do for ya.

[fishinwrench]

5 hours ago, FishnDave said:

Massive head on this flyrod-caught Channel Catfish!

Sumpin ain't quite right wit dat boi ! 🤔

[snagged in outlet 3]

Oh ch!t!   I thought that was my mother in law....

[FishnDave]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Sumpin ain't quite right wit dat boi ! 🤔

I agree.  It's certainly one of the strangest channel catfish I've seen.  Spawning male channel cats usually get darker in color and big heads.  As this one was on the thin side, I'm guessing this is a post-spawn male.

Even so....I had to take a long look at it...wondering if it was some sort of hybrid.

I don't hear of catfish hybrids.  However, a buddy of mine caught a large odd catfish out of his uncle's farm pond.  They showed the pictures to the DNR, who said they thought it was a channel cat/bullhead hybrid.  It was 6-8 lb range, I believe.  I saw the pictures....They weren't close-ups, and I think they were black-n-white film, not color...so it was tough to tell.

[snagged in outlet 3]

16 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

I agree.  It's certainly one of the strangest channel catfish I've seen.  Spawning male channel cats usually get darker in color and big heads.  As this one was on the thin side, I'm guessing this is a post-spawn male.

Even so....I had to take a long look at it...wondering if it was some sort of hybrid.

I don't hear of catfish hybrids.  However, a buddy of mine caught a large odd catfish out of his uncle's farm pond.  They showed the pictures to the DNR, who said they thought it was a channel cat/bullhead hybrid.  It was 6-8 lb range, I believe.  I saw the pictures....They weren't close-ups, and I think they were black-n-white film, not color...so it was tough to tell.

Lawn fertilizer and insecticides can do weird things😂

[FishnDave]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Lawn fertilizer and insecticides can do weird things😂

Its a good reason to not eat fish I catch.  Well....maybe I'd eat ocean fish...even though they are saturated with microplastics.  I dunno...we can't win.

[snagged in outlet 3]

5 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Its a good reason to not eat fish I catch.  Well....maybe I'd eat ocean fish...even though they are saturated with microplastics.  I dunno...we can't win.

I’ve caught some monster fertilizer bass on golf courses.  Wouldn’t anything  out of those ponds though. 

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, FishnDave said:

I agree.  It's certainly one of the strangest channel catfish I've seen.  Spawning male channel cats usually get darker in color and big heads.  As this one was on the thin side, I'm guessing this is a post-spawn male.

Even so....I had to take a long look at it...wondering if it was some sort of hybrid.

I don't hear of catfish hybrids.  However, a buddy of mine caught a large odd catfish out of his uncle's farm pond.  They showed the pictures to the DNR, who said they thought it was a channel cat/bullhead hybrid.  It was 6-8 lb range, I believe.  I saw the pictures....They weren't close-ups, and I think they were black-n-white film, not color...so it was tough to tell.

When I was a kid we fished the Salt river all the time, and there was a stretch from "Condemned Bridge" down to the confluence of the Mississippi where you'd catch these gray catfish with no adipose fin that the commercial fishermen called "Fulton's".    I'm guessing that they were a cross between a channel and a blue..... but I dunno. 

I've never seen one anywhere else. We caught them fairly regularly in the mid 1970's, some up to 15-16 pounds, but mostly 3-5lbs. 

 

[Johnsfolly]

On 2/24/2021 at 12:10 PM, FishnDave said:

Massive head on this flyrod-caught Channel Catfish!

My buddy and I caught one like that while jug fishing one of the branches of the Lake of the Ozarks. Weren't sure if it was channel or deformed flathead. Still an ugly sucker. Let it go instead of throwing it the cooler.