Catfishing Fishing for Catfish |
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| Date Added: August 13, 2009 06:02:30 PM | |
| Author: dave | |
| Category: Catfish | |
| Blues, Channels, & Flathead are mostly nocturnal feeders ... so knowing this will help you locate fish during the day. The fish will be deep most likely or on the shaded side of rock bluffs or ledges. At night they'll move out into flats to feed. Flathead holes are hard to find if you don't know where to look but big flathead catfish are easily caught out of their wintering holes but there's not much sport in this. I have caught a lot of flathead lately during and just after cold fronts move through. Catching them on fresh cut bait (shad heads). The shad were all still alive when I'd cut their heads off and put them on ... the flatheads were biting really fast on them Oct 3rd, 4th, & 5th. I started fishing for them a little bit and caught a lot of nice ones. Then after the front is pretty much played out they quit biting shad heads .... go figure. If you're goin after flathead in the winter on rod&reel all I can say is "Good Luck". Areas to target flats vary greatly from cement structure to sand/gravel flats ... my most productive areas are around crappie structure or sand/gravel flats where a lot of bluegill or crappie congregate. Catfishing, The crappie structure is best for daylight flathead fishing as the flats seem to lay up under the crappie structure placed there by crappie fishermen to attract crappie ... I fished these with really good success during the daylight hours by placing a fluttering bluegill directly under the crappie structure by dragging it around the cedar trees. I got hung up a lot but also caught a lot of flats like this. Important points to remember Catfishing, Catfishing If fiddlers (small catfish) are in the area there won't be any larger fish there. Flathead Bait I just remembered and didn't know about that you may try if they're in your area is bullheads. They're a little bitty green catfish that don't usually get much bigger than 1# around here but I have seen them get up to about 3# as I've caught some while fishing for largemouth. I caught them on crankbaits ... bass colored medium diving Bomber. The best thing to catch bullheads on though is worms or chicken liver but they'll eat anything ... usually when there are bullheads in a body of water they pretty much are the main fish there as they populate really fast and are hard to get rid of when they become resident in a pond. | |
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