I have always heard the term Mud cat before but wasnt sure what species of catfish it was describing. I hear people refer this name to catfish found in ponds or stock tanks but what species are they and are they found in lakes and rivers?

yes they are in lakes and rivers they are yellow to brown with round tails, nasty to eat IMO

just another name for a bullhead.

i think theyre bullhead cats or aka bait for the flatheads

yeah its a bullhead aka mudcat aka pollywog they have a ton of different names there are 3 species of bullhead the black brown and yellow bullhead

unless you talk to a cajun. They call flatheads "mud cats"

I always thought a polywog was the same as a chucklehead. We catch them in our lakes and ponds around here. they look like a channel cat on crack. They have big round heads and real skinny bodies but have the color of a channel. They are definetily not flat heads. i will take a picture of one next time i catch one.

jw

Thats a bullhead too.

I just thought about looking on the Texas Parks and Wildlife webpage and it says that there are two Bullhead species, a yellow bullhead and a black bullhead. Both are refered to as Chuckleheads and Polliwogs but is says that the yellow bullhead is also refered to as a mud cat. Is the easiest way to recognize them by just looking for a rounded tail fin instead of the V type tail fin that they channels, flats and blues have, besides color?

Do you guys eat them? I always just throw them back, they just dont look like they would taste as good as a channel or Yellow to me, they always look sick.

jw

a nasty little creature

they make real good racoon food