Baby Flathead Catfish

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This is such a simple and mundane, primitive task and question at hand. Why make it complicated and a spitting match?

As a moderator, may I suggest (for your consideration):

First, it'd be nice to calm down and listen to experts, and to know who the experts are on this site.

Second, remain constructive, please, no one really yet attacked you, suspect the good in people, not the bad, please, grow some skin, lose the pride, please, if you will, it won't get you anywhere and only hurt you, this is internet and an open forum; from what I could see we all were trying to help you. Never mind the noodling discussion, it doesn't pertain to you whatsoever.

Third, to the essence. You got yourself an Ameiurus nebulosus (common name brown bullhead), a fish extremely well known and with plethora of data sheets and descriptions online - I can fetch you a collection of links if you are unable to find them yourself. You do NOT have a Pylodictis olivaris (common name flathead catfish), so you can relax, your fish grows to 1ft in captivity, not 3-4ft and not 5ft. It is easy to take care of.
 
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Both Catfish & the lady fisherman look to be healthy specimens. Lol.
I haven't been following this thread since opening the "Noodling" can of worms. Didn't realize Noodling would be such a polarizing topic.
Participants who noodle make up an extremely small fraction of total
Fishermen. The areas of a lake or river where noodlers can actually fish is also limited to very shallow water, leaving 99.9% of the lake or stream available to the fish to breed & thrive.
There is no shortage of Catfish of any variety in my area. There are commercial catfish farms here that raise primarily channel cats, but wouldn't be surprised if flatheads weren't bred commercially too.
Btw, I agree that the OP's Catfish is a Bullhead.
 
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Don’t they have snapping turtles in those areas? I don’t know if I’d go around sticking my hands into a bunch of holes in murky water, hoping for the right species to bite. But it’s nice to see folks having a good time outdoors
 
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phreeflow said:
Don’t they have snapping turtles in those areas? I don’t know if I’d go around sticking my hands into a bunch of holes in murky water, hoping for the right species to bite. But it’s nice to see folks having a good time outdoors
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You'd be surprised at how docile and shy a wild snapping turtle is underwater. Catch one crossing the road, and trying to help her across to where she's heading is an exciting enterprise complete with lots of hissing and chomping and lunging and...well, snapping . :) But underwater, they just tuck and run...can't get 'em to bite...fortunately for swimmers...:)

Mind you, those are Canuck snappers with which I am familiar. Maybe the southern ones are more hot-headed? :)
 
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phreeflow said:
Don’t they have snapping turtles in those areas? I don’t know if I’d go around sticking my hands into a bunch of holes in murky water, hoping for the right species to bite. But it’s nice to see folks having a good time outdoors
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My mother has a snapping turtle at the her pond at work, it eats breads lol
 
jjohnwm said:
You'd be surprised at how docile and shy a wild snapping turtle is underwater. Catch one crossing the road, and trying to help her across to where she's heading is an exciting enterprise complete with lots of hissing and chomping and lunging and...well, snapping . :) But underwater, they just tuck and run...can't get 'em to bite...fortunately for swimmers...:)

Mind you, those are Canuck snappers with which I am familiar. Maybe the southern ones are more hot-headed? :)
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Yes we have many snapping turtles on our lake. We have painted turtles, northern pike, bass, bluegill, sunfish, gar, dog fish, rock bass, walleye and different species of snakes and birds on our lake
 
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jjohnwm said:
You'd be surprised at how docile and shy a wild snapping turtle is underwater. Catch one crossing the road, and trying to help her across to where she's heading is an exciting enterprise complete with lots of hissing and chomping and lunging and...well, snapping . :) But underwater, they just tuck and run...can't get 'em to bite...fortunately for swimmers...:)

Mind you, those are Canuck snappers with which I am familiar. Maybe the southern ones are more hot-headed? :)
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Wow, I never knew that. Fascinating…that answers a lot of questions actually. Thx
 
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