should I filet em up and use use em as cut bait or just fishem alive, I'll try both, just wondering what anyone else has done.

i like to use them alive most of the time, that is if you can keep them alive and if not cut bait works well also.

they are in a bucket with an aerator currently, you hook thru the lips? or the dorsal fin area?

Fish it alive Hooked through the tail about halfway between the dorsal fin and end iv the tail and hold on.

10 4, can they be too big, mine are roughly 7-8" or so.

There is a small cell of rain that should pass over in an hour or so, by the time it passes I'll be at my spot on Lavon bankin it.

If a bullhead is too big your fishin for too small a fish

Hook them only through the skin just in front of one of the gills. Most of the time flatties attack the bait from the head. Excellent bait and stays alive a long time.

and my grandpa told me to take finger nail clippers and snip off them spines ,,,,,,,a big fish loves a helpless bullhead .....as far as wear to hook them ......i dont remember , been a long time since i set a trotline or went after real big cats ......

7 or 8" is nothing for a decent flatty. I cought a 1.5lb channel on a jug back in the winter and 32LB flatty swallowed it whole with just about 3 inches of tail sticking out of its mouth. I got a pic of it somewhere..

That's awesome, I would love to see that pic.

Does anyone keep an aquarium with bait in it...for future use. I was talking to D.C.M. and he told me he knew a couple people did but I was wondering just how many. And where could you buy some live minnows, black saltys, maybe even bullhead, but I can get those outta the ponds at work, minnows too I suppose.

and my grandpa told me to take finger nail clippers and snip off them spines ,,,,,,,a big fish loves a helpless bullhead .....as far as wear to hook them ......i dont remember , been a long time since i set a trotline or went after real big cats ......

I heard about cutting the spines, so is that to disable the fish a lil and attract other fish... cuz I was kinda thinking it was to not stick yourself when you hook the wiley lil guy.

I don't think flat head have the presence of mind to know wether or not the spines have been clipped off or not. They eat bullheads naturally so clipping the spines is not neccessary.