Flathead Catfish..

[fishmounter]

So yesterday, while fishing At Lake Evans in Fairmount Park for bass with a well known plastic bait, I caught a 27 inch Flathead Catfish! I thought I had hooked into my new personal best bass, but after several hard drag-pulling runs and not jumping, I knew it was either a big carp or a Channel Catfish. I was super surprised that I had caught a Flathead Catfish. I had heard that there were Flatheads in there but until now I had never seen one.
Cool looking fish, very yellow. I wonder who put them in the lake. Possibly a few were stocked in the past when the lake gets some Channel Cats dumped in the lake for the annual fishing derbies?
I did not get a pic of it because my nice camera was with the wife and my phone takes terrible photos. This was almost exactly what it looked like:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m121/fishmounter/Flathead%20cat%20mt_zpsdosalgqc.jpg (http://s103.photobucket.com/user/fishmounter/media/Flathead%20cat%20mt_zpsdosalgqc.jpg.html)

[Stinkbait]

Those things are real predators. Anything smaller than their head gets eaten.
Can't catch them at DVL, cause they are reportedly fully nocturnal.

[fish4keep]

A month or two ago, DFW had their shocking boat in the big lake. They were collecting catfish.

[kwin]

someone is going around the IE playing bucket biologist at the peril of your fisheries.

[fishmounter]

Yeah,.. And two piranhas and an African Clawed frog caught in the last two weeks (that I know about, so there are probably even more weird catches there that I have not seen.)