Thought I Caught My Biggest Bass Ever On A Jig, But It Was A Catfish (Picture)

[MitchTBF]

Man, I was fishing for Crappie with the off chance of bagging a Bass when this sucker took the jig. I was thinking I caught my biggest bass ever until this ugly mug surfaced.

[AK-Jax86]

I caught a catfish off a crank bait once hooked it right in the mouth I thought it was a bass too lol

[Bladesmith,]

Darned nice catfish.

[flyfisher]

Catfish are pretty voracious predators and that is a nice one!!

 

I have caught catfish on topwaters and most recently i caught one on a crankbait that it absolutely destroyed when i paused on the retrieve.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Nice one!

[MitchTBF]

Can anyone ID the type ? Thank you.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Looks like a flat head.

[Kevin22]

Looks like a flat head.

 

No it doesnt...

 

 

I know the feeling of catching a catfish while bass fishing. I did it over 100 times last week on a lake in MN. The worst part was most of them came right to the surface and jumped (thrashed really) so at first glance they did look like a bass. 

[Kevin22]

Can anyone ID the type ? Thank you.

 

It is a channel cat, looks like a big male.  

[Bluebasser86]

It's a bullhead. You can tell because of the rounded tail similar to a flathead with the rounded head like a channel cat. That's a really nice bullhead too, probably a yellow bullhead it looks like. If it was a flathead it would have a flat head (duh) with a severe under bite and a rounded tail. If it were a channel it would have a rounded head with a deeply forked tail.

[MitchTBF]

Here's the 2nd picture I took of it with more of a profile of the head.

[Bluebasser86]

Here's the 2nd picture I took of it with more of a profile of the head.

2nd pic.jpg

Still a bullhead from that angle 

http://www.kdwpt.state.ks.us/news/Fishing/Fish-ID-Gallery/BLACK-BULLHEAD

[MitchTBF]

Thank for the input fellers. Wish I would have weighed & measured it. I was in my kayak and it was flopping all over the place while I was trying to avoid the pointy parts.

[Kevin22]

After looking at it on my computer and not my phone, it does look like a big black bullhead.

 

Don't know what you are talking about with the yellow bullhead. There are two species, black and brown. Brown can have a yellow belly or a white, black are always white bellied. 

[Bluebasser86]

After looking at it on my computer and not my phone, it does look like a big black bullhead.

 

Don't know what you are talking about with the yellow bullhead. There are two species, black and brown. Brown can have a yellow belly or a white, black are always white bellied. 

There's actually 3 commonly occuring bullheads; brown, black, and yellow. The yellow bullheads don't get very large though and after looking at that one a little more I think it's probably larger than most yellow bullheads get so it probably is a black bullhead. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_bullhead

[Bankbeater]

NIce cat! 

[Greeneye8181]

Looks like a channel cat but here in NOVA the blue catfish are usually the ones to go after lures.

[Missourifishin]

_{I caught a delicious channel with a crankbait last month}

[Broc]

After looking at it on my computer and not my phone, it does look like a big black bullhead.

 

Don't know what you are talking about with the yellow bullhead. There are two species, black and brown. Brown can have a yellow belly or a white, black are always white bellied. 

just saying, there are actually 7 species of bullhead.  Yellow, brown, black are the common bullheads but there are also white, snail, flat, and spotted bullheads. 

[Grizzn N Bassin]

Nice!