Wild Yellow Bullhead Catfish

[catfishtimmy]

Yellow bullheads from small creek, only two I have ever seen with this color and spots

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Welcome to MFK!

That's an astoundingly good looking catfish!

I can't see the mandibular (chin) barbels. Are they white, off white? I mean how do you know this is a yellow bullhead? http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?task=&species_id=348

 

[catfishtimmy]

thebiggerthebetter chin barbs are bright white, caught many brown bullheads in the same rock cave they looked normal with no marbling, I believe these two are yellow bullheads with marbling or a different kind of bullhead maybe snail or marbled, I caught them in northern Pennsylvania

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Sounds like a yellow. I am guessing the pattern will disappear with age. Unlikely to be snail or spotted, these occur south of Virginia and south of South Carolina, respectively.

 

[in_the_seance]

Looks like a leucistic yellow belly

 

[raubiy]

Welcome to MFK !
Great catch post your set-up

 

[catfishtimmy]

this is part of my collection, alligator gar got eaten by the redtailcatfish

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

You shoot quality videos, Tim! Pleasure to watch. Great job I only hope to strive for.

You must be real good with cutting, montaging, correcting the colors, brightness, contrast, etc. and your camera must be pretty good.

 

[catfishtimmy]

Thanks thebiggerthebetter I love to study my fish and take as many videos as they will let me sometimes they are camera shy, I tried something new today with my camera put the lens in a plastic 1 gallon aquarium and pushed it below the surface gave it a cool underwater look. Check it out!

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

That was fun too! Although this time the piercing serenity of the sound track was kinda messing up the endearing feelings evoked by watching