Silt on the backs of Wintering Flathead Catfish

[drdeathfucker26]

please excuse my youtube id, but this is the most introspective video about opelousas i have seen on youtube. thanks.

[idacatguides]

@drdeathfucker26 opelousas ??

[72megabowhunter]

man im a hardcore catfisherman from north carolina and i always target blues in the winter and now i know why!! very interesting footage! i wonder if bluegills do that too cause its hard as hell to catch them in the winter time, and thats my go to bait. ive caught flatheads up to 60lbs and blues up to 50lbs on live gills and the blues mostly on gill heads with the gut pocket intact! but in the winter i have to use crappie cause they are a helluva lot easier to catch than bream! awsome video!!

[idacatguides]

@72megabowhunter We catch bluegills here in MN/WI through the ice. They can be such light biters that you can't see a float or a spring bobber move. If the waters clear enough again I'm talking winter here, we'll drop the camera down the hole and "watch" for the bite. It's amazing to see how fast a gill can taste a bait and spit it back out again. There are times when the only way to catch them is to watch them take the bait on a camera.

[idacatguides]

See the video Flatheads and Shad.

I was using a dead shad to entice flats to bite in the middle of winter. They may have been interested...or just annoyed...either way, none bite.

[outdoorsandstuff]

do they feed when the flatheads lay like that?

[THECRAWFISH14]

a great way to catch winter flat head is to use spoons

[idacatguides]

@THECRAWFISH14 Or daredevils, treble hooks with a little lead work good too I would guess.

[lrhelmers]

very cool video, i watched an in-fisherman episode once when they were jigging for flatheads with large jigs and spoons in the winter time when they were schooled up like this.. half were snagged have actually went ate but interesting none the less.

[idacatguides]

@lrhelmers  This video called 2009 Sleeping Beauties is the exact location where Frosty Flatheads was filmed.

[killakevbo]

love the videos keep em coming

[lastfanstanding999]

(((_{-_-}_))) their really cold huddling up, they appear as a dead animal, no preditor is going to eat something thats dead,an otter or bear, they would be kinda cute of they werent so ugly, ill never eat any bottom fish, everyone i know like them here in florida, that silt is normal for anything that sits still for very long a few days, just look at all the silt in the water, yeah their keeping warm conserving,ok well thanks for the sites y'all, and remember the pitchfork stays in the barn, ha!

[ikashibimauler]

I love this video! Please keep them coming. As a dedicated catfisherman, this kind of stuff is so awesome to know.

[mswhite78]

they look dead

[lipripper01]

that was really interesting! thx well done

[ForeverTruelyWhite91]

how big were most of them flatheads? they look to all be 30-40lbs

[ColtonsHighlights]

That is nuts, how lethargic can you possibly get. Great video, what camera do you use?

[usmcgunner58]

Ive heard about how flatheads kinda school together during winter and sit in holes, but I never wouldve thought this many would be together at one time. Unreal man. AWESOME video

[fishing0man]

what did you use to record this i just bought a marcum vs380 and would like to record off of my camera

[antinowhereman]

very cool video

[bluehunter1100]

Great video

[crookedtrucker]

These drum are to small for Jesse anyways. I'm suprised the water is that clear. I expected a bit more cloudy water. How deep is the water?

[idacatguides]

Jessy said they were good eating size. The depth was 24-26 feet. The old Mississippi cleans up pretty good in the winter when the run off slows and the boat/barg traffic is minimal.

[river3782]

Great video of under water

FAtBoy Dan