This fish is a yellow bullhead catfish. It has eight barbels (whiskers) around its mouth that it uses to locate food. These barbels are harmless to touch, but beware of being stuck by any of the three ...

A friend recently emailed me this note: “I caught something weird in a pond yesterday. It had whiskers, so I figured you’d know what it was. It was funky-looking and ultra slimy with big lips. The ...

Mark Spitzer shows off his Nebraska-record yellow bullhead, which weighed 6 ounces. A hoax was circulating on Facebook that said a 346-pound yellow bullhead was caught in the Missouri River. I started ...

Another Missouri fish record was broken recently when a bow fisherman shot a 2-pound, 4-ounce yellow bullhead catfish. The Missouri Department of Conservation reports that Michael Williams of ...

LITTLE ROCK — I like bullhead catfish. I have one emblazoned on my business stationery. Folks sometimes ask if there's an underlying meaning to this, as if I might be bullheaded or something. I tell ...

butter cat, yellow cat, creek cat, white-whiskered bullhead, greaser, polliwog, chucklehead cat Description The yellow bullhead closely resembles the brown bullhead with a squat body and a round or ...

Michael F. Domachowske, of Constantia, above, reeled in this nice, 17-inch, nearly 3-pound yellow bullhead earlier this week. He wrote: "I caught it on Oneida Lake Monday night using a night crawler ...