Bullhead catfish, aka, mudcats, or yellow catfish are an interesting set of smaller catfishes, that are related to channel catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish, and madtoms, and can live in the worst fish habitats just fine.
Drew up biologically accurate version of white bullhead..an eastern USA catfish often confused with channel catfish, and then brown bullheads which are in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins, and then black bullheads, found in the same spots as the brown bullhead and often confused with them.
When I was a kids I caught these fish in creeks fed by raw sewer output, but these medium sized catfish had no issues. They were also stocked in city lakes in KC and STL before these ponds were cleaned up in the 1980-1990s. They inhabit backwater sloughs and marshes, and can be caught in very shallow water. They are also quite edible, having eaten many over the years, even if maligned. They are also a forage fish for flathead catfish that love to snap them up, and largemouth bass that can't resist them, spines or no. A very kid-friendly fish that bites the bobber and worm (or hot dog piece) even on very hot days!
Look for my bullhead designs in cafepress here: https://www.cafepress.com/combatfishingmidwestrivertown
and soon in spoonflower here:
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/combatfish?sort=new
tight lines,
Bryce
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