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: