Mellon and the mad Tom

Thanks...I think :tounge_out:

So fill us newbies in, who's Mad Tom?

 

I know that this sort of thing has caused me much heartache in the past. I feel for "mad tom".

 

Does anyone know what a "Mad Tom" is? It's those little bitty baby cafish things that susposedly have a little bit of poison in thie spines. You can fins them in small creeks sometimes. I think they are actually endangered here in Ohio.

 

If your talkin bout the lil muckledly colored things that lay on the bottom, we have em in the creeks here in southern missouri.

 

There are several different types of Mad-Toms in the waters of Ohio ... usually not more than 3 or 4 inches long .... Garry-

 

you guys are scaring me to go seining this spring! rollo

 

My books don't say anything about the Tadpole Madtom being poison, but there is a fish (which resembeles the Madtom) that is and that is the Stonecat. This fish average 6 inches in length up to 12 inches. It inhabits the riffles in large creeks or rivers and also found along lake shores where they hide under stones. They look a lot like a bullhead, except longer and thinner. The book says: "Handle with care, for the sharp pectoral spine will inflict a wound causing severe pain, due to a poison." They are usually caught when seining riffles. .... Garry- oooh:

 

we have 'em here in the Mad river, look like baby flatheads. yes they have poison, i know first hand how much it hurts!!:crazy:

 

I found a picture of a mad tom. I'm sure some of the Ohio guys have seen this one before.

 

:smile2: ... That is good Jeff .... Garry- .....:smile2:oooh:oooh: