How to catch a flathead catfish in Pittsburgh

The video shows you the process of catching huge flathead catfish in the Ohio River. We caught the bluegill at Raccoon Creek State Park and the catfish in the Ohio river, 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh next to Dashfields Dam.

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• Catfish
• fishing
• pittsburgh
• ohio river
• flathead catfish
• bluegill
• raccoon creek state park

[suicide5389]

I just pick them them up by the mouth and bare handed nothing wrong with some slimey hands lol

[djbill21]

@suicide5389 damn right!

[1337CJ1337]

You should always cut the top spines off of those type of bait fish if you use them. If you get into a really big cat and the bait fish you use puts those spikes out as a defense mechanism which is what they do, if the catfish get spiked in the top of the mouth he will spit it out.

[djbill21]

@1337CJ1337 Seems so inhumane. Reminds me of the japs cutting the fins off of sharks. Give the bluegills a fighting chance atleast.

[joeyfri13]

you should stop by 3riverscatfish its a local catfishing club lots of other catfish anglers on there!

[djbill21]

@joeyfri13 I saw it! Looks cool, but posts were a little old.

[jrloopy1984]

@jgfishhunter I need to find me a woman like that! You're fortunate to have a woman who'll get into fishing with you.

[djbill21]

@prosperwize Thank you for the tip! We are 100% catch and release when fishing the Ohio River and would never want to harm a fish that we could catch again. You'll see us handling our catfish differently in upcoming videos. -Bill

[NorthportTroller1]

Nice vid brother!

[joeyfri13]

@djbill21  Think you saw the old site, i built a new one last year that is current 3riverscatfishdotcom

[djbill21]

@suicide5389 Just a cheap surf rod.. something for the ocean. And I use 20 to 30lb test. I need to get an actual catfishing rod and 100 lb test, but it's winter now and fishing is slowwwww... maybe this spring!

[suicide5389]

what kind of rod and reel and line and pound line you use?