channel cat or bullhead

[semperfi]

i could really use some better clarification on this,,sorry for beating a dead horse,,just want to make sure,,here are some new pictures of my fish,,most of you say its a channel,,but if you go to the nydec web    http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7046.html   and look at the pictures that they have,,my fish looks like a bull head,,whats your thoughts,,i just dont want to eat a record fish,,thanks for the help, 

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[esox slayer]

Catfish.

[duckaholic76]

bullhead

[icedpapermouth]

i'd say cat

[icedpapermouth]

catfish... look at the pointed fin on the bottom

[fishman79]

catfish, there will be no fork at all in the tail of a bullhead.

[drowndin dots]

    this is a bullhead , that is a catfish 

[JJ]

I'm thinking channel cat, tail has too much of a fork. To be sure count the anal fin rays: under 24 would be a brown(or black) bullhead, 24 or more means catfish.

[jmillsp]

Appears to be a dark colored Channel Cat to me! The Bullhead doesn't have that much of a forked tail. Here is a Bullhead;

[jasper jo 09]

Bird food   

[semperfi]

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  this is the picture from the nydec web site   your thoughts please

[Wizzofd69]

Its a channel cat no if ands about it. Bullheads have a dirty yellow stomach. Total diff look. Your channel cat is just a little darker pigmentation then the norm but stll a channel

[bigfoot697]

bullhead squaretail, catfish fork tail, fisher who caught catfish have em fork toungue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[carcaju]

its a catfish but depending on the body of water it may be a white cat but def not a bullhead

[wny angler]

definitely looks like a channel to me.
channel catfish ---Coloration is olive-brown to slate-blue on the back and sides -the upper jaw projects beyond the lower jaw-The anal fin has 24-29 soft rays-forked tail

[semperfi]

thanks for all the input,,just counted the anal tail,,,exactly 24,,,thanks again

[beerbellybob106]

im thinking channel cat

[icewagon]

Channel cat

[ShaneO19]

Its a channel cat no if ands about it. Bullheads have a dirty yellow stomach. Total diff look. Your channel cat is just a little darker pigmentation then the norm but stll a channel

There are slightly different breeds of bullheads and not all of them have the dirty yellow stomach. I would say this is a catfish but it does have a bullhead look to it.

[combsey]

      going with a cat  forked tail    we get them dark out of champlain and other lakes around me

[Oldtimer]

catfish

[hardwaterB]

channel cats have a deeper fork in the tail.

[filetandrelease]

 It's a cat just like these

[semperfi]

very nice,,do they normally hang in one specific spot

[hardwaterB]

maybe its a cathead. ha,ha.