Our Flint River was known for its Red Breast population...until they ended up in the river. Basically wiped them out. I’m guessing they’re all over the US now. I know my son goes to Bama every year with his Boss and they’ll bring back hundreds of pounds of filets mostly made up of Flatheads. Yes, hundreds of pounds, lol.

Kinda like the Brown Trout ,
not native but no one seems to mind .
Can't wait to see how big they get in Lake Erie .

I've caught them on the Ohio before. They are sure fun to fight.

You get that tick tick......... tick tick tick. ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingggggggg. Then the fight is on.

took a 33lb one behind the franklin steel mill back in the 1970's. night fishing below the water plant.

Careful what you wish for.

Nice fish.

Its a thrill to catch one over 50. Its sure a thrill to pull him out a hole with your hands.

Bet that is a blast. What is the best month for noodling there in OK?

That's something you'll never catch me doing, too many other creepy crawlers hanging around where catfish live.

I used to wade in golf course ponds to find golf balls and resell them to golfers. I had to deal with snapping turtles and water snakes. I'm older and wiser now.

my mamma said turtles are the devil right lugnut?

we had a snapper here 3 yrs ago that didn't fit to the bottom of the 55 gallon drum cleanin tank.we also see some leatherbacks the size a garbage can lids down back.boats were made for a reason.

LOL They’re native to much of the US, so yes. They were introduced to a particular river in PA and parts of GA and FL, and caused problems. But in much of the midwest like here in Ohio, they’re just another native catfish species.

Yeah they are!.

Back in my wading days (we were kids) my brother sometimes wore sneakers when wading in ponds with high numbers of snappers.. You could find more golf balls buried in the mud bare-footed but he figured that would give him some protection from a bite. I told him a sneaker wasn't going to help at all if one of them giant, mossy-backed devils got ahold of him!

i've flipped snappers outta the mud trappin swamps in winter that'll make yago brrrrrrr

The best time I would say late June. But in the next week I will be catching some, they just won't be on the nest real good. When the males are protecting the eggs is when they get mean. I like to catch them when there is a male and female in the hole, you could catch a 100 pound of fish real quick.

I saw that. By the headline I thought were talking about a big one. Maybe I'm jaded but having caught that size and seen many bigger......

Don’t be knocking the bait they catch and are proud of!

It's big for our state.

They don't grow all year round here like they do in the south.

Nice thread, Lugnut.