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Can anyone identify this fish? #15143022 07/27/24 10:32 PM
Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 140 T Tr24512 OP Outdoorsman
OP Tr24512 Outdoorsman T Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 140	I caught this at amistad today. Black stripes. Just curious since I’ve never seen one like it.

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Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143027 07/27/24 10:40 PM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,799 No Place But Texas RCarter TFF Celebrity
RCarter TFF Celebrity Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,799 No Place But Texas	Flathead catfish WORK HARD.....FISH HARDER! GOD is Great...BEER is Good...and PEOPLE are CrAZy billy currington

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: RCarter] #15143069 07/27/24 11:35 PM
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 17,682 Boerne G grout-scout TFF Guru
grout-scout TFF Guru G Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 17,682 Boerne	Originally Posted by RCarter Flathead catfish Aka: yellow cat to us rednecks.

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143072 07/27/24 11:37 PM
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Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143073 07/27/24 11:37 PM
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 6,036 TX Minner Bucket TFF Celebrity
Minner Bucket TFF Celebrity Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 6,036 TX	Knock the sides of that sucker with some hush puppies!

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143090 07/27/24 11:54 PM
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DanXB-21 TFF Guru D Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 14,752 Norris Lake/ Cincinnati	Flat Head... They'll thump a jig and slowly ease off, set the hook and for a few seconds you'll be convinced you've got the state record... Then they go into the barrel rolling and it's oh chit... Can I please have my jig back... Dan "The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood"... Lou Holtz

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: grout-scout] #15143098 07/28/24 12:00 AM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,799 No Place But Texas RCarter TFF Celebrity
RCarter TFF Celebrity Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,799 No Place But Texas	Originally Posted by grout-scout Originally Posted by RCarter Flathead catfish Aka: yellow cat to us rednecks. You can still be a redneck and call em' a flathead Last edited by RCarter; 07/28/24 12:00 AM. WORK HARD.....FISH HARDER! GOD is Great...BEER is Good...and PEOPLE are CrAZy billy currington

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143318 07/28/24 03:22 AM
Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 7,734 somervell county 3 361V TFF Celebrity
361V TFF Celebrity 3 Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 7,734 somervell county	AP! AKA: Appaloosa, yellow, flathead….

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: 361V] #15143436 07/28/24 12:29 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 15,544 Southlake, Texas Happykamper TFF Guru
Happykamper TFF Guru Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 15,544 Southlake, Texas	Very tasty eating fish, waaay better than channel or blues. I have caught several up to 35 lbs while bass fishing, normally it is May - June when they are up shallow spawning

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143437 07/28/24 12:32 PM
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WAWI TFF Guru W Joined: May 2007 Posts: 44,834	Don't forget the belly meat and the cheeks

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15143444 07/28/24 12:44 PM
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SC-001 TFF Celebrity S Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 7,502	belly meat, mmm mmm good. What did you catch it on? usually they will only take live bait. I've caught channels and blues on artificials but never a yellow cat

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: 361V] #15143543 07/28/24 02:35 PM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,041 Liberty C ChanceHuiet TFF Celebrity
ChanceHuiet TFF Celebrity C Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,041 Liberty	Originally Posted by 361V AP! AKA: Appaloosa, yellow, flathead…. Never heard them called that. Opelousas yes not Appaloosa. I had to Google that. Cajun got many names for the same thing. Originally Posted by lakeforkfisherman I can backlash toilet paper.

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15144277 07/29/24 12:06 PM
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NoWeighers Extreme Angler N Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1,804 Zapata, TX	Where I come from the old timers (Alsatians) call em a shovelhead.. James Bendele Falcon Lake Tackle "On the eighth day, Man invented the Fish Hook."

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Tr24512] #15144281 07/29/24 12:17 PM
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gar1970 TFF Celebrity G Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 5,717 West prong Nueces River	"Pintoncle" in Spanish https://www.Jiglyf.com TEXAS ELITE ANGLER

Re: Can anyone identify this fish? [Re: Minner Bucket] #15144295 07/29/24 12:43 PM
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 80,391 Universal City Tx. banker-always fishing Pumpkin Head
banker-always fishing Pumpkin Head Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 80,391 Universal City Tx.	Originally Posted by Minner Bucket Knock the sides of that sucker with some hush puppies! IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap. John 3:16 Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !

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