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Title: Oddest way you caught one...
Post by: Webguy on Mar 19, 2004, 08:08 AM
What's the oddest way you have caught a bullhead?

Mine was trolling a big crankbait at 4mph for muskie in 40 feet of water.

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Post by: howey1176 on Mar 19, 2004, 11:00 AM
Wonder what he was thinking ;D ;D. Looks like he got all the hooks. It's not too terribly weird but I caught them floating a fly down the Owasco outlet in Port Byron, NY from the Rochester Street bridge.
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Post by: mike692 on Mar 20, 2004, 07:55 PM
Last day of ice fishing this year, I caught two on ice ants tipped with maggots. I have also caught them on crankbaits while trolling for walleye.
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Post by: crappieloo on Mar 20, 2004, 08:27 PM
Pitching a 5'' chub in a fastwater spillway fishing for walleyes. Trolling the bottom of a river in late oct. and snagging one off the bottom.
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Post by: reelcharacter on Mar 21, 2004, 12:19 AM
After a torrential rain storm, with creeks rushing higher and faster than I have ever seen them before. We were fishing off a road tube with water just pouring through it. Water chocolate brown from the swollen creek. The Bullhead hit like a freight train in water so fast moving, I did not think a fish could negotiate the current as the stream water flowed into this small reservoir.

Have also caught them on a Rapala red and white lure. First one came as quite a surprise, as I had thought them to solely be bottom feeders. As the years have gone on, I have learned this to be fairly commonplace.

-Reelcharacter
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Post by: acsacmboy on Mar 21, 2004, 09:55 AM
fishing for smallmouths in about 40 fow. thought it was a nice bass. turned out to be a big bullhead. mid october.
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Post by: fishin_musician on Mar 22, 2004, 10:52 PM
This wasn't a catch exactly but unusual none the less. I was fishing for smallies in the Susquehanna River wet wading and walking the shoreline casting to likely spots. After giving one nice boulder strewn swirl a thorough working with no results, I began walking up river towards the next good spot. A violent splash startled me and I turned to see the last of the disturbance on the surface of the water where I had just been fishing. I worked my way up the river for a little while then headed back down river. when I got to the scene of the crime there was a 8" brown bullhead with fresh battle scars on its back. I tossed it back into the river wondering if the violence I had heard was from the Musky's attack or the Musky's attempt to dislodge the stinging spines of the bullhead from its throat.
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Post by: BuckShotJon on Mar 23, 2004, 08:10 AM
I was Bass fishing my local pond and had a hit on a split rapala. Was bringing the bass in and it started to fight alot harder. When I got it in there was a Bass 12-13 inches on the front set of hooks and a bullhead on the back set of hooks.

Jon
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Post by: firstice_rules on Mar 23, 2004, 07:50 PM
using a bettle spin for bluegills and crappie
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Post by: Sandman on Mar 26, 2004, 07:06 PM
The oddest had to be the one my son caught ice fishing. He was in the shanty and a group of us where fishing at Irondequoit Bay. He told us he saw a big bullhead or small catfish swimming around. I've caught bullhead through the ice before, including one a week ago, but this one hit none of the bait. My son improvised and put a piece of Egg McMuffin on the hook, lowered it and the bullhead inhaled it. We all got a good laugh out of it.
For me, I caught several one day casting a tiny orange Abu spinner in a cove for gills.
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Post by: Polar on Apr 12, 2004, 09:46 PM
 on a sluggo fishing for bass.
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Post by: WANNAKETCHUM on Apr 13, 2004, 05:51 PM
I could have caught a nice sized Bo'Head by hand once. All I had to do was reach down and grab the 30" or better Watersnake that was coiled around him and was starting to stretch his jaws over it's head........I decided to pass....WK  8)
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Post by: peple of the perch on Apr 13, 2004, 09:31 PM
on tv these guys would go in to the water and reach down hollow logs and pull them out with their hands
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Post by: chrisfrank on Apr 16, 2004, 09:03 PM
POTP. thats called 'noolding'.   apparently it's popular out in the sticks.   Theres lots of stuff on that on the web and you can order a video called 'Okie noodling'.   they actually saw it for sale at BestBuy this week in the new release section.   scary stuff.  couldnt imagine wrestiling a 20lb cat in water up to my chest....
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Post by: hosscletuslulu on Apr 18, 2004, 09:40 AM
I caught one jiggin for perch at Sodus last year and last night while fishing for bullhead i brought one in that the hook wasnt in his mouth he was latched on to the snell knot and didnt want to let go even after he was out of the water.PERCHPULLER
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Post by: big walleye on Apr 18, 2004, 02:44 PM
trolling a spinner rig with leeches. Caught 5 trophy bullheads that day. 8) 8) 8)
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Post by: fishyfreak on May 04, 2004, 02:43 PM
the oddest way i've ever caught a bull head was about a year ago...
it was a dark and stormy night when all of a sudden!!
 joking, i had caught a frog earlier in the day and i threw it on my hook for no real reason, i left it out there for about 10 min and my bobber sunk, i reeled it in and had at least a 5.5 lb bullhead
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Post by: Pasquatch on Feb 26, 2005, 05:55 PM
5.5! Sure its not a channel?
My weirdo was from the Hudson, on a 10" herring for stripers....2.7 pounds, wooohooo! Man was I disapointed... :P
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Post by: Hookset on Mar 15, 2005, 01:13 PM
on a sluggo fishing for bass.

Mine too.  On Lake Lonely tossing a Zoom Super Fluke in the grass by the golf course.  d**n thing clobbered it...
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Post by: bigredfishing on Mar 15, 2005, 11:11 PM
oddest way that i have a caught a bullhead,  besides catching them on a fly rod, i would have to say catching bullheads 5 or 6 feet under the ice in 13 feet of water.
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Post by: AD on Apr 05, 2005, 12:45 AM
oddest way that i have a caught a bullhead,  besides catching them on a fly rod, i would have to say catching bullheads 5 or 6 feet under the ice in 13 feet of water.

A friend of mine found the same thing, he was fishing for crappies at night and he got into a school of browns.    They were marking halfway up on the vex suspended.   


Oddest for me would be on a bobber with a bait below it.   
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Post by: bigdave1018 on Apr 05, 2005, 05:29 AM
1 night we walked up to 1 of our spots and when we got about 30 yds away , we heard all this spashing. the heads were running the outlet!!!!!!!!!! my buddy had his big salmon net with him, for some unknown reason and 2 scoops later, we had 2- 5 gallon pails of bullheads and never wet a line. been back there many times since and never seen it like that again.
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Post by: buzz bait on Jun 18, 2005, 06:50 PM
i was trolling for bass today got a monster bull on jointed perch rap . it was also the biggest  one i ever got 20 in 2pound 8 oz . left the camra  home :-[
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Post by: gillmaniac on Jun 22, 2005, 02:34 PM
I have caught one in the tail on a tube fishing a bridge pier. i felt him hit it then when i set the hook i hooked him in the tail.

gill
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Post by: Steelhead_Hunter88 on Apr 24, 2009, 08:36 PM
I caught a nice 1 pound bullhead when i was steelhead fishing a tightline on the botton with spawm. Wierd thing is he hit the botton weight an hung on tight reeled him in it was crazy
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Post by: fish_finder on Apr 26, 2009, 06:59 PM
Weirdest way i ever got one was on a big spinner bait, i was fiddling around with lures in the tackle box and had the spinner bait in over the side of the boat, i noticed the rod was moving and brought up a nice 13 incher, my guess is he was after the pork frog i had on as a trailer
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Post by: mealworm on Apr 26, 2009, 07:03 PM
i caught one on a 7'' berkly gulp june bug rubber worm fishing for bass
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Post by: tom1234505 on Apr 27, 2009, 03:05 AM
oddest way i caught one was my first and only(so far) bullhead. caught him in water which was about 20 feet deep. i had my worm down from my bobber to about 5 feet and wasnt getting a single hit when all of a sudden my bobber went down and thought it  was a trout but it was a bullhead, about 1 pound.  i also caught 3 trout that day.
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Post by: BBK on Apr 27, 2009, 09:21 PM
Caught one on a spinnerbait last year.
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Post by: fishfinger on Apr 27, 2009, 09:36 PM
Caught one on top water on my buddy's pond
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Post by: troutaddict33 on Apr 27, 2009, 09:56 PM
caught one on a big black streamer on a fly rod...
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Post by: stingdave9119 on Apr 27, 2009, 10:52 PM
was out on chataugua lake in about 8ft of water casting a walk the day and had one come up and hammer it. it was only about 15 inches but blew me away on how aggressive he was
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Post by: BBK on Apr 29, 2009, 07:50 PM
was out on chataugua lake in about 8ft of water casting a walk the day and had one come up and hammer it. it was only about 15 inches but blew me away on how aggressive he was

A walk the day? do you mean walk the dog? as in a zara spook type bait?
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Post by: chez on Jun 02, 2013, 02:07 PM
ICE FISHIN this year i must have caught 2 dozen threw the year all on the northland forege minnow.TIPPED with or without grubs.Whats wild is on caught them on allmost every lake i ice fished.LOTTS of FUN  threw the ice with 4 lb. line.
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Post by: OTIS on Jun 03, 2013, 07:57 AM
Quite a few years back, my daughter was the net girl for my son while we were at the marina.  She scooped one out of the shallows while her brother was fishing.  We released it back where it was thinking it was nesting.
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Post by: trout stalker on Jun 06, 2013, 09:15 AM
ice fishing for salmon, tip up set up a foot under ice in about twenty feet of water flag goes up things spooling for sure thought it was a sam set hook and pulled in tons of line it spooled only to find a yellow bullhead on it???????? not only did the thing hit up top it ran like it had a motor attatched to it must be confused lol
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Post by: Rugburn on Jun 12, 2014, 04:02 PM
  By a whisker, tough to get the hook out.
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Post by: stripernut on Jun 12, 2014, 05:11 PM
Three "different" ways that I have caught them'

Using a "Power Line", which is a hoot to use!
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As a kid we would put bread on the water and bait fish would come in a feed and we would scoop them up with a hand net, we got a number of nice pout.

Shining a bright light in the water along the shore, spot a pout and drop a bare hook in with only some glow in the dark tape on it. When the glow in the dark hook disappeared, you set the hook and haul them out...