channels

[bigblueeatsme]

i got a 17 shovel head on a baby channel that was the only time i used it any eles used baby channels?

[bennie8888]

i never used baby channels,but i do use bull heads.

[Big Smooth]

Bull heads are great bait. I lot of people think the yellow bellie is a bull head. They are a little diffent. The bull head is stout like the bellie but they are dark colored and white on the underside of them. Bull heads are some tough bait.

[bennie8888]

YES THEY ARE!!!!!!!!

[gloomis1983]

i have used baby channels and had no luck thinking they'd be the sh*t, like 5 years ago at CP1 i traded this bald dude there that fished it all the time some lil warmouths for some baby channels like 4 1/2 in. long and couldn't keep them alive or get a hit on the darn things to save my life, tried to take them home in the tank and they DIED don't know how long he had'em or wat but they didn't seem very good or maybe it was just me

[gloomis1983]

you know wat else drives me crazy that people call green sunfish "warmouth" and we don't even have warmouth around here, they are 2 totally different types of sunfish, even though i just stated "warmouth" in the last reply lol, look up some fish photographs on google or something and compare a green sunfish to a warmouth , and you'll see what everyone calls "warmouth" are actually green sunfish, i know this maybe nit pickin' but i had to say it sooner or later

[bennie8888]

YOU ARE RIGHT.I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT KNEW THAT.LOL THE WARMOUTH HAVE REDDISH EYES,LARGE MOUTHS AND OLIVE-BROWN SIDES WITH BROWN MOTTLING AND THEY ONLY HAVE THREE SPINES IN THE ANAL FIN.AND THE WARMOUTH ALSO HAS SEVERAL REDDISH-BROWN STREAKS THAT REDIATE FROM THE EYE AND EXTEND ACROSS THE HEAD GREEN SUNFISH HAS A LARGE MOUTH AND A LONG BODY THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLES A BASS. ITS BROWN TO OLIVE GREEN SIDES ARE TINGED WITH EMERALD GREEN,AND THE UNDERSIDES ARE WHITE OR YELLOW.

[gloomis1983]

yeah, besides yellow bellies, "green sunfish" are one of the best keeping baits i think, hardy

[bennie8888]

THEY ARE A HARDY BAIT!!!!!!!!

[fishdealer04]

Aug 5, 2008 13:34:18 GMT -5 Big Smooth said:

Bull heads are great bait. I lot of people think the yellow bellie is a bull head. They are a little diffent. The bull head is stout like the bellie but they are dark colored and white on the underside of them. Bull heads are some tough bait.

Yellow Bellies are actually a bullhead. There are 3 kinds of bullheads. Brown, Yellow, and Black. Also depending on where they come from the color changes a bit on them, like a flathead catfish, some are really dark and some are really yellow.

I have tried the baby channels, but never do any good with them. I stick to using bellies and panfish.

[Big Smooth]

I did not know that! Always good to learn new things, regardless, I then have all three types ready for action. Thanks for the info fishdealer.

[bluecatblues]

i use baby channels , but i cut em in half and tip em with a leach

[Big Smooth]

That sounds good, My dad was taking yellow bull heads and doing the same at cast aways.

[bluecatblues]

yah youve prolly seen some of mine layin on the dam at catman blues lol , i use em alot down there , dont really get anything on em anywhere else but ther dam

[fishdealer04]

Aug 7, 2008 14:06:37 GMT -5 Big Smooth said:

I did not know that! Always good to learn new things, regardless, I then have all three types ready for action. Thanks for the info fishdealer.

Not a problem. I did not know that until a few years ago when I got a book and it talked about that.