They are great fighters. Far surpasses LMB of equal size. All of my fish came off of watermelon (with red flecks) tubes on 1/8 oz heads.
I went flathead fishing this weekend to discover the worst thing I have seen in a long time. A "golden algae" bloom that release a toxin casing gill bleeding and death hit the only good river for flats. The whole river was nothing but dead fish by the thousands coming downstream. Saw some 70-80 flats dead. Huge carp, bass, everything dead....![]()