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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Catfish => Topic started by: The Ice Man on Jan 01, 2012, 08:29 PM
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i was wondering if any one had any tips on how to catch some bullheads through the ice
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I have never fished for them, however I know some people who would target them on a lake at night using chunks of beef for bait. They caught quite a lot of them.
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I have gotten then with night crawlers, shiners, jigs, but they seem to love glow in the dark stuff.
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There is a lake here in Pa that has Alot of bullheads. we targeted them one year and found that they hit great through the ice. we caught them two ways 1st way....cut bluegill on tip-ups. Tuna inside spawnee sacks on tip-ups.
2nd way cut suckers on jigging rods
we also caught big channels this way but they were suspended down 10'
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Bacon on #6 baitholder
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Stumbled into this picture of a nice bullhead which was released. Hit a shiner on a tip up.
(http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq14/van_cleaver/Monroe2011026.jpg)
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They will eat anything a bluegill will. Right on the bottom, right after dark. They like mud and vegetation.
Unlike channels, they bite just as well in the winter.
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I dislike bullheads because of their slime.
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So you must dislike all fish then, bc all fish have slime.
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But bullheads smell the worst.
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No worse than anything else.
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People have different opinions.
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sure theyre a little slimy but the taste pretty good! never caught a good one while ice fishing though. caught a 5-6"er jigging once, but thats about it...
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never caught a bullhead through the ice.
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Living in SD, I don't think you ever got to kick a hole in coastal Atlantic sea water and jig up a bucket full of herring. You would smell them for weeks after. :o
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I have never caught one through the ice either. I would have to bet they would be fantastic eating out of the cold water. Basically, I grew up eating them, and often they had a muddy taste, especially if they were caught mid summer in a shallow lake. I would love to try and target some.
WS
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Be neat to get into some. I hear best time for bullheads is march, April a worm and hook and a guy can do really well. I never ate them. But channels are very good. They sure are fun on light tackle at nite by lantern light!
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These were taken last weekend, at 3 feet deep, in 9FOW, on a glow tear drop with a few waxies, I was looking for Crappy...
(http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Squareneck/0303132228_zpsc29bc029.jpg)
(http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Squareneck/0303132230_zps76671d6e.jpg)
The second biggest was taken on 1lb test..
(http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Squareneck/IMG-20130305-00257_zps43ccbf09.jpg)
And another I caught eariler this season...
(http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Squareneck/252_zpsc2f3a2b2.jpg)
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I'll eat those cats if you dont want them! ;)
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Never really targeted them, but like stripernut said, the ones I did catch were on glow jigs with waxies after dark while targeting crappies.
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I caught this one by accident while jigging for perch today with an ultra light rod and 2 pound test. Measured in at 24" and 4.9 pounds. My first ever.
(http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u635/massNtrash/Mobile%20Uploads/F4468B51-DE99-4F21-92E3-57464C25B5D1_zpsed3eq4ts.jpg) (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/massNtrash/media/Mobile%20Uploads/F4468B51-DE99-4F21-92E3-57464C25B5D1_zpsed3eq4ts.jpg.html)
(http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u635/massNtrash/Mobile%20Uploads/4351F3A5-8C12-4E6C-8C7E-B62F8B47B325_zpsfwamoqkm.jpg) (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/massNtrash/media/Mobile%20Uploads/4351F3A5-8C12-4E6C-8C7E-B62F8B47B325_zpsfwamoqkm.jpg.html)
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I was just informed that this is in fact a channel cat not a bull head my mistake
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i caught this one around 11:00 pm on a chartreuse/glow frostee jigging spoon packed with waxworms
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii54/panfishman/2014-01-10192607.jpg)
i need to try eating them sometime, a guy told me that if you soak the fillets in milk overnight they lose the muddy flavor.
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Nice catch iS-- 3 brown & 1 yellow bullhead
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Thanks man!
They tasted great, the meat was different, very bright pink..
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okay I know I am leaving myself open on this question but here it goes... but does anyone ever chum or drop bait down the hole overnight for bulls/cats and come back in the following days?
Josh
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Nice size one. Tasty too. :P ;D
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okay I know I am leaving myself open on this question but here it goes... but does anyone ever chum or drop bait down the hole overnight for bulls/cats and come back in the following days?
Josh
Not me because I don't target them..
But!
I'm positive it would work though..
But I would chum the intended area around 4:00pm, so by night time they would be there same day...
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I catch quite a few at night fishing for specks with emerald shiners.ive caught them at different depths too not just on the bottom.tipups rigged with shiners at night catches them also.i learned on here that they are good eating out of cold water..and they are delicious.
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massntrash that is a channel cat
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When I was a kid I got to go with a bunch of old timers that fished at night for hornpout. They had not done it this time, but what they said they would often do is sink a cows head to the bottom (open and hard water) and that would make for good fishing for a while... I never wanted to get hornpout enough to go to the trouble...
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okay I know I am leaving myself open on this question but here it goes... but does anyone ever chum or drop bait down the hole overnight for bulls/cats and come back in the following days?
Josh
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Yes I have.
Go get yourself a bag of "Sow Chow" from the local feed store. Drop a few handfuls down each hole. It swells, then sinks to the bottom.
Just check local and state regulations first.
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some nice pic's of Channel Cats, very few bullheads though. Still nice to see them being caught through the ice, I live in Canada and I have never caught one through the ice.
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Used to get a plastic container of chicken gizzards from the butcher shop, and let it sit out at room temp or in the sun a few days. Hook a gob of that on a #4 baithold hook, or larger, and drop to bottom. Let lay with a few jigs now and then. You'll get a kitty. ;)
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I have had luck? Catching them unintentionally while camping. 6 to 9 fow, edge of weeds, it may just be a honey hole but I've caught them on waxies, shiners, fat heads, even on a 2 inch rattle bait 2' under the ice that was sitting still since I mostly use that for calling in fish. My guess would be location is most important.