Got-em All my stars aligned last night with Free time, no chores no obligations, no eclipse, etc etc . it was a great night with star light sky, no wind, no bugs, or boat traffic. Got 32 of these beauties with most of them caught on shrimp. Crawlers got a few as well as freshwater clams, but the shrimp was killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjEUSkdks4i do them a little differenp i cut under the back fin slice skin to tall snap shuck ......you can do bullheads pretty fast this way i like cleaning them while fishing have a gut bucket and a cooler with ice ....no mess at home .....
I started just running the electric on them and fillet like any other fish.
I do them like Uoflcards Takes about 2 min / fish The bigger ones I'll fillet after pulling the hide off so that's about 3 min. Under 10" they go whole in the pan. My brother and I brought home 66 one nite. That was a bunch of cleaning.
Naah your being too careless If they're bouncing around, a whack on the head with the back of your knife calms them down. Haven't seen a decent sized one yet that I can't tame. It's the little buggers 6-8" that will stick you quick. I don't even like taking the little ones off a hook.