My first big shovelheads

[fishinadam]

First off, anyone know what the difference is between humpback and "long" shovelheads? Im thinking its just the difference between male and female.. i dunno.

Anyway on 5-28-04 I caught a 36lb. 8.5oz humpback and just a few hours ago (6-8-04) I caught a 36lb 13oz humpy. Im so excited lol. There is such a gap on my biggest catches so far........ 13lb 1oz then 15lb 6oz..... now high 30's ^^ Im going to strive to become a great catfish hunter in life. Not too bad of catches for only 19 years old no? :) Someone take me fishing in a central ohio river some weekend plz.

[CritterGitter]

Congrats FishinAdam. Did you get pics to post? We love pics of big catfish!!!!!

CG

[fishinadam]

I have to get around to taking them to get scanned / resized. Going to florida tomorrow and comming back next wednesday tho so its going to be a little while. Caught a 22lb 14oz shovel today tho :)

[george tinkham]

i never heard of a humpback catfish,butt only a humpback whale.

[fishinadam]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pb4bf3e7407355b0df627553f39a41e90/fd6ad00c.jpg
this is a humpback, notice the humped back near dorsal fin lol... (btw this is an ohio thing that i know of)

http://www.agfc.com/critters/gallery/fish/flathead_catfish_big.jpg
this is what we would call normal or long shovel

There isnt alot of information about this on the internet, we think that it might be the difference between male and female, dont know which is which tho. We may find out in the next few weeks when the blue's quit spawnin and the shovels start to. We'll pretty much only catch females during the spawn so that should help us determine.

[Toad]

Nice Flatheads. If you have in-depth questions on flatheads Robbie (katfish) is the man to talk to. He is the guy in the first picture you have posted so maybe you already know him.

[george tinkham]

wow that definately a humpback there,i dont believe i ever caught one but then again maybe it only shows up in the big ones...

[M.Magis]

It's simply the difference in shape between males and females, and it's definitely not specific to only Ohio. Flatheads are flatheads, no matter where they are. The second picture is a juvenile fish, so it doesn't really show anything. Take a look through some of Robby's other pictures, you'll see the difference.

[fishinadam]

By ohio thing I was refering to the term 'humpback' but thanks for your comment.

[M.Magis]

Sorry, I misunderstood.