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[Warren Allison]

That's what I've always known as mud cats. I haven't tried one, but apparently the meat tastes like mud.

I thought pollywogs were tadpoles?

They are.

 

[Lucky]

Here we call them a Flathead or Appaloosa catfish. Mud cats usually have a big head and little body, best place for them is on the pool bank.

 

[504RP]

Any idea what it weighed ? I would guess around 50 lbs.

 

[greybeard]

Here we call them a Flathead or Appaloosa catfish. Mud cats usually have a big head and little body, best place for them is on the pool bank.

Yep, as long as the younguns don't step on them the next few days.
Pollywog can be a tadpole but that isn't the only way I've seen the term used.

 

[Travlr]

Bullheads, flathead, and channel cats... Bullhead is yellow brown, thick, with a big head. That fish looks like a bullhead but it's huge. Must be a flathead, because they get big. Channel cat is grey and more slender. A lot of people prefer eating channel cats.

 

[worldsgreatestlover]

This sure ain't me!! Sent to me yesterdayView attachment 58125

Nice lake belton flathead.
We've been getting some good flatheads and blues at belton and stillhouse lately. I'd post some but @Warren Allison has me terrified to post pics. I saw 2 Chinese looking characters at the store in briggs yesterday.

 

[greybeard]

Blues are my favorite to catch. Fighters. The still deep pool right below OC Fisher was the best place until they brought in a dragline around 2005 and channelized that area into a shallow run. The blues disappeared.
That was in Sam Angelo.

 

[greybeard]

post some but @Warren Allison has me terrified to post pics. I saw 2 Chinese looking characters at the store in briggs yesterday.

I ain't skeered.

 

[Dave]

For a while I went down to the Snake River catching catfish with some friends. The wife declared our house a catfish free zone. I didn't mind much. Years of living on the WA coast and in SE Alaska I was use to eating fish that are much better. But they were kind of fun to catch.

 

[simme]

For a while I went down to the Snake River catching catfish with some friends. The wife declared our house a catfish free zone. I didn't mind much. Years of living on the WA coast and in SE Alaska I was use to eating fish that are much better. But they were kind of fun to catch.

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I spent a little time on the snake river when I visited the Potlatch paper mill in Lewiston in the late 70's. If I remember correctly, there are or were some giant sturgeon in that river.

 

[Dave]

I spent a little time on the snake river when I visited the Potlatch paper mill in Lewiston in the late 70's. If I remember correctly, there are or were some giant sturgeon in that river.

Yes there are but you are not allowed to keep them. Up until a few years ago there was season for them on the lower Columbia but they closed that now too. Down there they had to be at least 48 inches but no more than 60 inches. All others were released.