PB 14.25″ Brown Bullhead

  • mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    June 8, 2012 at 3:20 pm #1222671

    Caught on a Texas Rigged worm of all things. I didn’t think it was a bass, judging by the fight, and when I got it near the boat I told my partners, “Its a turtle”. We were fishing right at sundown and all I saw was a broad, dark thing that was wobbling as it tried burying itself in the weeds.

    I am not 100% sure it is a PB, but it is going forward.

    Because it was dusk I adjusted the levels of the photo so you can see more detail of this cool member of the catfish/bullhead family.

    Funny thing is my nephew had an incidental catch of one a little smaller about a month ago. We are thinking about becoming bullhead guides.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    June 8, 2012 at 3:25 pm #1074752

    That is an awesome fish! Cut 4.25″ off it and give it to BK for this weekend!

    josh_eats_kitties
    Posts: 123
    June 8, 2012 at 3:40 pm #1074759

    Neato catch. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brown bullhead come up (several hundred yellow bellies but never a brown)

    targaman
    Inactive
    Wilton, WI
    Posts: 2759
    June 8, 2012 at 3:42 pm #1074760

    You have multiple partners? Nice bullhead anyhow…

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    June 8, 2012 at 3:50 pm #1074763

    Looks like a short flathead.

    Isn’t the MN record brown something like 7 pounds?

    Sounds like the Everts banks are going to be pretty full of anglers for the Off the Wall Fishing Contest tomorrow. A friend of mine is digging out his “fishing chair” just for this.

    TheFamousGrouse
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 11646
    June 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm #1074769

    Nice bullhead.

    Wow, just realized those are two words you don’t often see adjacent to one another. Except in Iowa, of course.

    C’mon. Somebody had to.

    Grouse

    JasonP
    Twin Cities
    Posts: 1368
    June 8, 2012 at 4:09 pm #1074775

    nice bully!

    lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    June 8, 2012 at 4:36 pm #1074781

    Quote:

    Nice bullhead.

    Wow, just realized those are two words you don’t often see adjacent to one another. Except in Iowa, of course.

    C’mon. Somebody had to.

    Grouse

    Except in Iowa, you’d get run out of town for using fancy words like ‘adjacent’.

    Chris
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1396
    June 8, 2012 at 5:14 pm #1074793

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Nice bullhead.

    Wow, just realized those are two words you don’t often see adjacent to one another. Except in Iowa, of course.

    C’mon. Somebody had to.

    Grouse

    Except in Iowa, you’d get run out of town for using fancy words like ‘adjacent’.

    Ouch, man

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    June 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm #1074804

    The record is 7 pounds. I highly suspect that fish was a very rare abnormality mutant. They are the bigger of the 3 bullhead species, but to beat the other 2 by 4 pounds?

    Check out the wide range of state records. There doesn’t seem to be any geographic region that is more suited for bigger ones. It just seems random. Maybe because they are less common and not as sought after?

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    June 8, 2012 at 6:57 pm #1074845

    Plump little sucker.

    blufloyd
    Posts: 698
    June 9, 2012 at 12:15 am #1074908

    I caught a 3 lb’r once scared the crap out of me. Took days to identify it in old pre internet days.

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