Author Topic: bullheads (Read 12335 times)

limpbait · « **on:** Jan 02, 2008, 09:34 AM »

anybody catch bullheads through the ice?

BlueDuck · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 09:41 AM »

I caught one a couple of days ago. I was fishing for trout near the bottom with worms and up came a Bullhead.

SEF830 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 09:43 AM »

I actually caught my first bullhead through the ice a few weeks ago. I was jigging for panfish with a white glo-jig tipped w/ a moussie.

limpbait · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 09:47 AM »

i caught one, a big breeder and am sorry i kept it, taste like mud. they must clean up on spawning run?

Jack Magnum · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 10:29 AM »

Quote from: limpbait on Jan 02, 2008, 09:34 AM

anybody catch bullheads through the ice?

You can catch them on a regular basis at Lake Luzerne in N.Y. Fish right off bottom.

adkRoy · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 10:53 AM »

My dad, master jigger of bullheads:

hali-jigs tipped with spikes
We also catch them on tip-ups tipped with minnows too.

4cator · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 11:33 AM »

wow thats a fattie

Dizzy · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 11:38 AM »

Caught my first one last February on Hidden Lake in PA. It was the old "Vexilar/sniffer" situation... here it comes, there it goes, here it comes, there it goes, here it... FINALLY, fish on! And up through the ice comes a bullhead!?!?

Needless to say we weren't expecting that!

Hali-spoon w/ spikes on a dropper.

darkhousefisher · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 12:33 PM »

Back home in Montana, I used to see them swimming along the bottom when I was out spearing

Dull Hooks · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 01:52 PM »

By complete accident last winter near greene point.I had caught just about everything that day, gills,sunnies, crappie , perch,pike bass..My flag goes up where I'd been catching pike and bass.Set my jig rod in the holder and tend the flag, land a nice lmb.Reset and walk back to where I was jigging and I see my rod tip just throbbing up and down really slow.Now I'm thinking what in the world could've picked and tiny jig tipped with spikes laying in the weeds.After a brief tussle and 2-3 lb face full of whiskers comes thru the hole.Good thing he wasn't hooked deep it was the last of my favorite little jigs.

crappieslayer22 · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 02:48 PM »

my buddy chenbasshead caught 3 in about 20 min last week crappie fishing at night!!! and ive caught them jigging to!! i also caught one on a 5inch shiner that was on a tipup!!

pikehunter23 · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 04:55 PM »

I know a guy that has a pond in his backyard that is filled with bullheads and he lets me ice fish on it. Last year I caught over 50 of them and he let me keep all of them.

blaster22077 · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 02, 2008, 05:07 PM »

I get bullheads all the time some are nice size i don't keep them but they are fun to catch

Danderson · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 07, 2008, 07:46 AM »

i've gotten 2 or 3 bullheads through the ice before

snot rocket · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 09, 2008, 10:00 PM »

got this one jigging the other day...biggest one i ever caught

Snot Rocket

GAMBELL · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 14, 2008, 09:08 PM »

I have caught them on tip ups with shiners and jigging. It is always a shock when one of those ugly mugs comes up the hole.

Strike_Zone · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 27, 2008, 08:50 PM »

I caught my first one yesterday (1/26/08) on Loon Lake (NY)while fishing in a Pickerel and Perch tournament. Caught it on a tip up using bass minnows. It was worth $40.00 and a plaque because they had a special Bullhead division just for the heck of it. Only one other Bullhead was weighed in and mine was the largest. Released it after the weigh in to fight another day. Now I just might try using Berkley power baits for catfish on a tip up.

Strike Zone

Hamilcarbarca · « **Reply #17 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 05:32 AM »

Wow, thats one good sized bullhead. Snot Rocket.

trapper2000 · « **Reply #18 on:** Feb 12, 2008, 05:40 AM »

a few years ago i was fishing lakeview in jefferson county ny i got 6 bullheads in one day on a ice dot and spikes never did it again and i don't even like them

jimmyclaude · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 31, 2008, 06:34 PM »

I love eating bullheads and seem to catch them fishing for browns

Roy, I had to look twice I did not recognize your dad

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Author Topic: bullheads (Read 12335 times)