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Seen a poster the other day of the fish of ND. There was flathead catfish on it. Are there flatheads in ND? Have you caught one or seen one firsthand ? just curious where they live in ND. TIA
Possible in the James River like Guy said and there’s a small number still the Missouri / Oahe. Exceedingly rare.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just wondering if you misidentified the species. Blues and channels resemble each other closely and the channel has different colors it can exhibit depending on the season (tan, olive, blue, dark - almost black). Many people mistake that they catch blue cats in the Red River where they don't exist. What were the key identifying characteristics that make you think it was a blue cat?Caught a 24" blue cat near Cattail about 8 years ago on either a jig or bouncer, don't recall which
Game and Fish doesn't list blue catfish on their list of fish species in ND
I agree with CatDaddy. I have made this mistake fishing the Sheyenne as a high school/college kid. wasn't smart enough to look up other characteristics besides the color so just assumed, my college buddy didn't argue and think much of it after I convinced him and we caught a smaller blue'ish appearing cat one time we just didn't think to look into it more.Like I said, not saying he's wrong at all - just speaking from experience from people in my boat on the Red River swearing they caught blue cats when in fact they were channels that were blue in color. Without looking closely at the tail and counting anal ray fins you don't know for certain.
Caught/kept/ate a 14in laker from the aforementioned boulder on the West Beach in '05 or '06; on a night crawler. The boy kept catching suckers/drum and I told him his next fish "better" be a trout or salmon (Sept). It was. Even as I knew it was a trout; I couldn't figure out "what kind" until we got home that night...Caught a 24" blue cat near Cattail about 8 years ago on either a jig or bouncer, don't recall which