Catching Massive BullHead Catfish! (Maine Catfishing)

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[@RICorruptionbusters]

Awesome video mate!

[@ddselvig]

Maine and New York tend to have the biggest bullheads of any place in the country. Here in Minnesota the big ones average a little over half the size of your monsters. I've fished for bullheads for many years and the biggest one I landed was in livestock pond on a ranch in South Dakota. The big ones are fun to catch, but I prefer to eat the ones that are seven to ten inches long.

[@GregHuntley]

I've caught some 30-38 pounders in KY

[@eh1918]

@@GregHuntley Those aren't bullheads bud XD

[@frieskier567]

Those are White bullheads, didn’t know they got that big up here. Excellent table fare .

[@eddiepigg5333]

When I was a kid, we used to fish for bullheads in Kansas City but we NEVER caught any that big! I didn’t even know they got that big.

[@huntinfishinwithDwayne]

Butler lake has big bullheads like that. Big brown bullheads. I’ve got a video of one my ol’ lady caught.

[@user-mf5ci1wc3x]

yes black bullhead smaller browns are good i live at the start of st lawerence river we get good runs in spring

[@bushcrafthippie]

Shout out from Lewiston! Looks like your catching white bullhead! Super jealous! We only have black bullheads in the andro and they are a little smaller! Tight lines and have a great summer!

[@danielwalston9666]

Better than channels and close to a blue in taste but we call them white catfish. I believe they are in the bullhead family.

[@TayloresFish]

Nice haul! i fish bullheads out here in MN, mostly yellows and blacks but we have channels and monster flatheads as well. fresh catfish is my favorite

[@lindseymontana945]

These white catfish are in the Kennebec too. I've caught a few in Gardiner, I caught one once in the brackish salt at Squirrel Point lighthouse

[@Todzilla386]

They look like white catfish to me. Did the chin barbells look white?

[@IncogNito-gg6uh]

White Bullhead is a new one on me! I had to look it up! Anyway, I subscribed, but would you do me a favor? As an avid bass fisherman I've learned holding fish by the lower lip and raising him to the horizontal without supporting the tail can damage the tissue in their jaw joints. Please, hold the fish vertically if you can't support the fish with both hands. P.S. Nothing about this video looked staged to me. Good fishing!

[@blackmoonangler]

These are white catfish, technically in the bullhead family but bigger, native to coastal rivers in the eastern US

[@trowwzers5057]

When I fish rivers, I fish in between rocks and target goby for cut bait. Sometimes, I land big bullheads. I usually catch 2-3 of them on an average fishing session by accident. Biggest being around 2.5lbs

[@DMike54]

I didn't know Bullheads got that big. Wow!!!

[@analogalbacore7166]

Use the leader! Youll catch more fish and it is more abrasion resistant. Your welcome!

[@hybrid8238]

Great video

[@mr.trammell6399]

Johnny depp looking asz

[@nickthorn8969]

Those are monster whites I wish we had them in oregon!

[@lanyoutdoors]

They are pretty fun to catch.

[@65FullMoon83]

Is that the Kennebec River you're fishing? Those are White Bullhead Catfish you're catching. They're actually the largest member of the Bullhead Catfish family. They can grow up to 15 or 20 pounds. I 🤔 think there might be some Channel Catfish swimming the Kennebec as well. Not sure though?

[@jameslafontaine5557]

Was going to say the same, the get from river to river via tho ocean believe it or not, usually caught near the ocean or in estuaries. We don't have them in new hampshire anymore but recently started catching them, along with channels just south of new hampshire border in the merrimack. Ive been told they go up into nh on the merrimack as well but fish and game at least isn't aware if that's true. I bet they are in the brackish water on the coast here though. Are whites considered native in maine? Also curious what leads you to believe there are channels in the Kennebec, that would be pretty cool. Wonder how far up the Kennebec watershed the whites are found

[@65FullMoon83]

@@jameslafontaine5557 I don't believe white cats are considered native to Maine. Maine Game & Fish believes someone brought white catfish into the state & illegally released them. Read somewhere that someone claimed they caught channel catfish from the Kennebec. They probably caught white catfish and just thought they were channel catfish imo.

[@JohnUSAofficial]

nice

[@RonGay58]

To bad the Androscoggin River was so polluted that I wouldn't dare eat a fish out of it. But the fishing is good.

[@baccoff3308]

Cool Fish!

[@Weirdoid]

You had great luck with your hornpouting

[@ddselvig]

That's a name you seldom hear. I've heard that in some places of the US they are called hornpout.

[@edmundstubbs2441]

Where are you fishing?

[@steveburlingame1935]

My biggest bullhead is 3lbs

[@larryd1296]

Looks like a Marblehead Cat to me, not a Bullhead.

[@thurmaneldridge572]

These are black bullhead catfish. They do that big

[@rickbeatty2766]

First fish wasn't a bullhead

[@mohammadabdullah8632]

Right down the street from my house

[@kennethhanaburgh6877]

White catfish not a bullhead

[@charlesfredrick4789]

Those are white catfish.

[@yaboidspdadon5838]

I believe that’s still a bullhead

[@alextrebek6101]

You need to learn how to handle the fish

[@rjnichols4707]

This is staged, you brought your own cat fish that you bought and hooked them and threw them in the water and then acted like you caught them

[@lanyoutdoors]

Damn it😔

[@Harley_subaru]

I agree this looks staged

[@jameslafontaine5557]

Its not staged they are white catfish. Have caught them up to 8 pounds in the merrimack in mass just south of nh border and they travel via the ocean. One of the few cats that can live in saltwater. Hes getting them there cause hes so close to the ocean.

[@jameslafontaine5557]

If you guys fish your big rivers in maine a few miles up from where they enter the sea in you'll catch them just like this. Think big, betting the saco would be a good spot, but also Kennebec and Penobscot are good bets. Where the river turns brackish they get largest. I catch them with a striper set up, sliding weight above a swivel then 10 inch leader with a peice of chunk bait like cut up fish. Fallfish work the best, sucker are good too. Same size hook and bait youd use for striper surf casting or for drop fishing for cod. They get enormous so don't be surprised if you get one 5 or 6 pounds. Its crazy more people don't know about them

[@yupnope2444]

5:02 you can see fish worm moving on the side if this bullhead, i'de guess it wasn't staged.

[@hondaman991]

bullheads do not have a fork in the tail, their tails look like the flatheads they look more like fathead channel cats tho!

[@TW12392]

These are white bullhead they have forked tails