Bullheads.

[tangle tooth]

      Buddy calls me up and wants to go fishing for bullheads. Sounds great. I guess. I've never fished for bullheads before. He lives in Pipestone County, I live in Blue Earth County. Is either one of them good or bad for bullheads?
      Does this call for lighter gear than my regular catfishing gear? Watched a few videos and didn't see anything special. Am I missing something? He says he knows how to clean and cook them.
      I'm kind of looking forward to trying this. What is good bait? I've seen people use crawlers, red worms, corn, soft plastics, lots of other baits.
      Wonder why I have never done this before.

[Boar]

Bullheads aka muffinous Glennous, dont care ive used walleye rigs and couldnt leep them off.

[mike89]

bull heads any where where you live!!!  ask Waterville!!!!   they used to have bull head days!!!  Minneopa creek, by the state park, was full of them... 

[glenn57]

A plain hook with a gob of any worm and a sinker on the bottom will work. If there pawing even under a bobber works.

There awesome smoked. 

Hey boar.   

[Bobberineyes]

We used to use small leeches fishin for them years ago.  Good luck!!

[mike89]

angle worms are that's needed!!!  bully up!!!   

[LPS]

Fun as heck to sit in a lawn chair and fish for bullheads.  Crawlers and laying on the bottom is how we did it. 

[Dotch]

Used to be an annual rite of spring seeing Winnebago's with blue license plates (IA) parked at the Morristown dam. Bullheads bite on just about anything when they're biting including sweet corn. Ticked us off when we were trying to catch sunnies. When I was a kid, my buddy's family had a summer cabin on 1st Crow Wing. Went fishing on several openers there. One time he said watch this. Put a booger on his hook and within seconds he had a bullhead. 

[snow1]

lol Dotch,that's a new one, spring cold water bullies are the best for table fare,as water warms they tend to taste muddy,get mushy,canned sweet corn in my days,bullheads and carp love sweet corn.

[LPS]

That must have been one heck of a bugger.   LOL

[Gunner55]

We used to have some that must've been almost 2#s here, before the Zeebs. Put a spinner/crawler on in the Spring & they'd almost rip the pole out of your hand. Still see some schools of little bullhead minnows every year but don't catch any big ones anymore.

[tangle tooth]

I went out and spent $1,000 for a good bullhead rod & reel combo. I lied. I put some 6# mono on an old Zebco micro on a 5-1/2' rod. Filled a little Plano box with some sinkers and hooks. Now I just need to dig through the compost pile for some happy little worms.

[Steve-o]

I can almost smell that li'l Plano box filled with sinkers and hooks now.  Maybe even a few Mister Twisters melted into a compartment.

[roony]

No cane pole?

[glenn57]

brotjher and i pulled a many a bullhead out of the chain in our younger years. they put in a channel by hwy 23......near what is now channel marine and pulled a ton out of there as well when they were spawning. we ate well on smoked bullheads!!!!!!!

[LPS]

I remember I used hooks with long shanks so it was easier to get them out of the bullheads. 

[glenn57]

I remember I used hooks with long shanks so it was easier to get them out of the bullheads.

  yep.and we never left home for a bullhead adventure without the mouth spreader and hook remover....well and a can of earthworms.......we dug legally by the way!!!!!! 

[mike89]

long nosed plyers here..

[Bobberineyes]

Make sure you save some for bait on the river, don't catfish like bullheads???

[tangle tooth]

      Roony, I do have one of those B&M Black Widow extendable poles sitting in the fur shed doing nothing. Wish you hadn't said that. Now I'm thinking.

      Bobberineyes, I see there is an article on catfishing in my June Fur-Fish-Game.

[glenn57]

TT... Is that fur- fish and game Minnesota specific??? Think years ago I got that magazine and liked it. Not sure why I quit??

[Boar]

Bobber, the big flatheads do!

[roony]

TT... Is that fur- fish and game Minnesota specific??? Think years ago I got that magazine and liked it. Not sure why I quit??

They use big words Glenn.

[tangle tooth]

      Glenn57, it is not state specific. I can't remember which magazine was state specific. I used to get Outdoor News but it got too expensive for me.

[LPS]

I used to live for catfishing on the St. Croix.  Had a 32' houseboat that I parked for the weekends on my favorite cat spots.  Caught some over 35 but didn't break 40 that I remember.  I have caught maybe 2 bullheads on the river here and not one catfish.  Hard to believe that this big watershed had no catfish in it.  Maybe that is a good thing????

[roony]

Barry you really have lived a lot of different places

[LPS]

My first wife and I lived a block from where we had the house boat on the river.  I worked for the City of Mahtomedi when I lived there.

[glenn57]

      Glenn57, it is not state specific. I can't remember which magazine was state specific. I used to get Outdoor News but it got too expensive for me.

thinking about it now I think the one I used to get was called Minnesota fins and feathers??? Think it went belly up ?

[LPS]

I used to read that and Fur Fish and Game. 

[Steve-o]

The Google doesn't say much about Minnesota Fins and Feathers.  I did find a reference to a lawsuit appeals case from 1985 where the magazine owed a printer a bunch of money.  I guess that explains why they ain't around and gives some sort of a time frame for how long they've been gone.

but Fur-Fish-Game is still alive and kicking.  Fur-Fish Game:  Current Issue