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That definitely looks like fun. I trust they are flatheads, which is a fish on my bucket list.
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Love them Flatheads. Wish Utah would stock them. Wouldn’t be any chub problems.
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Wow that's a nice batch of cats.... Thanks for posting, fun to see some hogs... Later J
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yes some flatheads would be nice. But we would need to change our live bait laws. I guess you could try artificial.
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[#0000FF]Flatheads eat live food...like sunfish or small bass, carp, suckers or trout. So they also smack lures pretty well. I have caught lots of flatheads on everything from small crappie jigs to crankbaits.
Here is a pic of one I caught on 6# line and a small jig while tubing below Horseshoe Dam in Arizona.
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Ye, Flathead are an interesting fish.
They can hear better than all most any fresh water fish, 15 times better than a Bass. They can hear a noise in the water a half a mile away.
They also have a super powerful sense of smell, taste buds over thier in tire body.
Even though they have very small eyes they see a larger potion of the color spectrum than most fresh water fish.
If you ever hear a very loud sucking all most cracking sound close to shore at night. And think to yourself ‘man that must be a hugh Carp”
It might be a Flathead.
On occasion they swim right up to the shore,, bearly stick there lips out of the water and violently snap there mouth open making a loud sucking almost cracking noise often mistaken for a large carp.
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[#0000FF]I was float tubing on Patagonia Lake...down near the Mexico border...right after some small trout had been planted. I about launched out of my tube like a Polaris missile when a big flathead chased a rainbow to the surface and blew it out of the water right next to me.
On small streams, whenever the water drops and leaves a deep pool...with a flathead in it...it won't be long until that (fat) flathead will be the only fish left in the pool.
I would love to have them in Utah, but as long as there are hatchery pet trout and everlovin' June suckers we ain't gonna see no fish-eatin' flatheads.
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Years ago when I first stared Cat fishing Willard at night, one could hear the cats when they surfaced
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That looks like so much fun. I have always wanted to try flathead fishing !
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Great job
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