What kind of catfish is this?

[NAVY CHIEF]

100% channel.....

[NAVY CHIEF]

The guys stating mudcat don't catch any fish. Haha

[MadHatter]

It's amazing how many sportsmen on here are calling a channel cat a mud cat lol. This is embarrassing.

You should see the snake id threads

[Bayouboy]

Ain't never been a mudcat with eyes that big! They have beedie little eyes. They are usually about that color, but so are channels in some waters... Also, never been a mudcat with a forked tail either... That is absolutely a channel catfish, and a fine specimen of one too.

And a flathead catfish, (AKA op, opelussas, Yellow cat) common in Texas rivers/lakes is a predatory catfish. It is not a scavenger catfish like the channel, blues, or even mudcats... The flathead is protected in Texas too... They have separate regulations too. They do not count as part of your 25 fish limit of catfish. They have a 5 fish limit of their own and minimum length is 18" instead of the 12" limit for blues/channel catfish...

It is amazing the confusion and bad information in this thread!

Love me some fresh opelousas filets!!!

[Goldeneagle]

D - All of the above.

[postman]

Willow cat, at least that is what my grandpa and others called em in east Texas. Not a channel cat. They clipped the tails to bleed em when cleaning.

Where I come from, channel cat are also sometimes called "willow cat"

[PEC]

Where I come from, channel cat are also sometimes called "willow cat"

Where I grew up too Channels were called willow cats and mudcats were called pollywogs.

as stated multiple times the OP is a Channel.

[Mudcatz]

Channel cat gets my vote. If those are 2x6 boards that would be largest mudcat I've seen.

[Smithwr]

Pollywog

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Thats what I always called them, and i grew up in Erath county too lol. Dont hear that term much

[Saltyag15]

Channel cat. If some are you are right by some miracle, then I have caught and eaten a lot of mud cats in my life.

[jb1312]

100% Channel.

[JeffK]

looks like a channel. Either way, channel or mudcat, you will be tossing it back if you had yellowcat before.

Never heard yellowcat being called a mudcat before. That makes no sense.

[duckmanep]

Learned something new today.... Not only are we lacking bowhunters around here, we are also lacking fisherman.... wow.

[Chad C]

It's a channel cat.

[bloodstick]

Its responses like these that make me just shake my head