what kind of catfish is this?
 

:help: Hey guys, I recently set out a trotline and caught a few catfish, I came across one I am having troubling identifying. Could you tell me what kind of catfish this is? I was thinking possible mud cat?!?! Thanks in advance.

Definitely mud cat, aka yellow cat.

^^ People love em, I think they taste like mud.

Looks like a small flathead or Op ...... Not yellow enough for a mud cat?


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Yellow, Appaloosa, mud, flathead are all the same fosh

really? had no idea............

A mud cat is a bullhead catfish.
Which is what is pictured here.
Flat heads are a different genus.

Someone needs too figure this out. Y'all have me confused.

what kind of catfish is this?
 

Touché

A yellow is still a mud, Opelousas, flathead, etc though (pylodictis)

Bullhead - Ameiurus

Correct.

I think......:spineyes:

But it is definitely a mud or yellow cat.

Not sure on type of catfish but I do know that mud and opps are not the same.

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Yeah. Same thing to me.
Bullhead
Mud Cat
Yellow Cat
Coulee Cat

They in fact are the same... Just to you they aren't. From Oklahoma to Florida the flathead cat is synonymous with having tons of other names, Mud Cat is one of them.

The bullhead is also called a mud cat

Its a Bullhead and they taste just fine to me. To each his own.

Bullheads and Flatheads are indeed different fish. Bullheads do not get very big. A 3lb'r is a good sized one. Flatheads as everyone knows will get big. 52lbs is my biggest.

As y'all might have guessed, MathGeek is a fan of bullheads. We catch quite a few when targeting freshwater catfish. When I feel a 1-3 lb fish, I'd usually prefer to see a channel catfish when it reaches the top, but bullheads go straight in the box too. Taste is about the same. Channel cats yield a bit more meat for the same size fish, in my experience.

My family catches quite a few catfish every yr. I'm pretty sure a mudcat and a opp is not the same.

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Try google.

The lake we catch bullheads in we never catch them in areas with a mud bottom. We only catch them in places that have a good amount of grass on the bottom. The grass is growing out of the mud bottom so it may be a mute point.lol.

X2 on the meat yield.

I did. Do you catfish?

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There are a number of informal names and nicknames and regional names. Names like mud cat and yellow cat probably mean different things to different people.

The fish in the top picture looks a lot more like a bullhead than a flathead catfish.

from TPWD

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I do, do you understand that mud cat is a slang term for a fish that can vary from parish to parish? Bulkheads and flatheads are MUDs - doesn't matter if your family only calls one of them a mud, the family down the road calls them both MUDs.

Valid point Gooh. In Louisiana there certainly isn't a shortage of "well that's what my grandpa and my dad called it". I kinda like it that way. :).

Mud cat are sometimes called polliwogs right??:spineyes:

That's correct

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Mud cat and polliwog are the same.

Op, flathead, and yellow are the same.

Bullhead? I have no clue where they stand.

I have heard a op/flathead called a yellow cat.

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Genius! Read the frickin poster, it says they are both called mudcats.

Thanks for arguing though.

Already resorted to name calling. If you feel like calling it a mud cat. Then knock yourself out. There is countless sites that will tell that they are different. Maybe called the same by some people who don't know the difference. You can eat a mudcat but I'll pass. Have a good day.

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But, they aren't the same fish at all. The original post is a yellow cat, or mudcat, not a flathead or Apalossa. You have to realize that???

How about everyone quit calling the fish by a nickname and call it by the scientific name so we can end this thread! :beathorse:

You have to realize we already covered that, read the damn thread.

I even agreed that bullhead (MUD) and Yellow/Flat/Opp/App/MUD were each from a different genus.

You have to realize that????????????????????

Bullhead is a MUD to some people.

Yellow is a MUD to some people

Both are different fish.

A tiger that ran through wet dirt is also a MUD CAT to some people, but is a totally different species - make sense?

Already did for the most part, problem is most of the folks on here don't read the threads. They'll ask for what bait someone caught fish on, and it's posted in the report 2 posts up!

Guess you missed it too?

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Panties officially... in wad.....

Looks like a hybrid to me. Better call a mud cat expert for clarification

Or just a taxidermist

It's an eatdatcat. That's all you need to know.

Throw you google experts a curveball it looks like a horned pout. Just a little bigger than what is typically caught up north. They have that kind of Catfish up north I found out when I was stationed way up north.

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Same thing, MUD CAT

Most coonass's call this a polliwog. I have no idea why probably french for something. We used to catch hundreds of these in stagnant bayous and farm ponds. The meat is a yellowish orange color. I can't taste the difference but I throw them back because they don't get very big unlike a flathead/OP.

Please don't confuse a spotted cat/flathead for a mud cat. Spotted cat tastes great in a courtboullion, Mud cat doesn't

Here goes another one

Another one that grew up knowing the difference.

Lol. You want win. He'll argue till his phone dies or computer crashes.

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