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Silt on the backs of Wintering Flathead Catfish

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Uploaded by on Jan 21, 2010

It's a common belief that the silt on the back of wintering flatheads is from their non movement through out the wintering months. This video will show that this isn't true!

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

  • @drdeathfucker26 opelousas ??

  • 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!!

  • @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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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  • do they feed when the flatheads lay like that?

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

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

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