03-24-2015, 05:02 PM
[#0000FF]I wish there really was a simple solution to avoid catching bullheads when you are fishing for more desirable species. But the truth is that they will hit anything. I have caught them on flies and many kinds of lures...as well as every kind of bait you can imagine. And big baits do not keep them off. There have been times when I caught bullheads on my largest minnows or biggest piece of carp meat.
And fishing shallower...below a bobber...is no guarantee of keeping them off either. I have caught mudders fishing jigs and bait under a bobber...2 to 3 feed down in 7 to 8 feet of water.
Whenever I find I am in mudder country...and losing bait to them or having to deal with removing a lot of them from hooks...I move off a ways to try to find an area where they are not so plentiful. Harder to do when you are fishing from shore but about your only option sometimes when afloat in a tube, toon or boat. They will group up wherever there is warmer water, more food or something else that attracts them.
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And fishing shallower...below a bobber...is no guarantee of keeping them off either. I have caught mudders fishing jigs and bait under a bobber...2 to 3 feed down in 7 to 8 feet of water.
Whenever I find I am in mudder country...and losing bait to them or having to deal with removing a lot of them from hooks...I move off a ways to try to find an area where they are not so plentiful. Harder to do when you are fishing from shore but about your only option sometimes when afloat in a tube, toon or boat. They will group up wherever there is warmer water, more food or something else that attracts them.
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