[trelauny]

Hi all -- Hoping someone can help us identify these catfish. A family we know just got a new place in California with an awesome stocked pond. Can anyone tell what kind of catfish these are?

 

[Herbhome]

At first I thought bullhead, but the tail in the second pic has me thinking really dark channel. Other more experienced please chime in.

 

[SteveMcK]

I'm thinking funny color phased channels.

 

[JHH]

I'd say channels.

 

[gtva]

Something about the head shape and whiskers has me leaning toward some kind of bullhead, but not really a clear enough view. Should be fun on light tackle either way.

 

[Herbhome]

That settles it! It's a Bull Channel! :wink1:

 

[Brackish*Water]

the first pic look like hungry catfish

 

[Catfish_Hunter_D]

I’d say a really dark channel. I caught channels that were so dark they looked black. I was fishing into a damn on the Upper Potomac River. I wasn’t really sure what I was looking at either. Now sometimes in the wild hybridization does occur. So that’s always a possibility too.

 

[Welder]

Them are channel cats.

 

[Catfishcreek]

I would say channels. I have caught a lot of bullheads and that one would be an awful big bullhead! I could be wrong but I don't believe bullheads get that big usually. Maybe state or world records.

 

[108cop]

100 percent channel cats

 

[Michael Wilkerson]

Channels

 

[ramon06]

Channel Cats

 

[2CRUZ]

It an't hard, just fry one up.

 

[jumpmaster]

channel cats for sure, bullheads tails look almost square like a flatheads. They would also be state records if they were bullheads, lol.