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Due to high tides and strong north wind I put up the kayak and fly rod and got out my winch and broom stick. Started at dawn with a bone super spook jr. Got a hit and set the hook. started with a little fight and I immediately thought I had a rat red or a small trout. Fight lasted about 10 seconds and then felt a big jerk. Then reeled in without any resistance. Photo tells the story. Whatever I had on was bitten off behind the head. Must have been bitten off by a shark. I thought at the time it was a hardhead. I took these photos and then threw the head back in. Later I realized from the photos that it wasn't a catfish. The lips look like a sucker fish of some kind and it didn't have sticker fins. This fish incident happened in GISP. ?????????
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Looks like a catfish to me!
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Hardhead catfish.West End Anglers - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.Comment
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Thats no hardhead, Looks like a carp of some sort,sure has a lot of lip,like a sucker fish! no telling what it is!West Bay Sensai...Comment
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Call me crazy but on second opinion it kind of looks like a Red Tailed Catfish that is native to the Amazon but commonly kept in aquariums. I may be crazy but it kind of looks like that.Comment
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Some kind of catfishOriginally posted by Russ757 View Post
Russ, looking at the second pic, I can see why you thought of a Red Tailed Cat.Comment
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Looks 100% like a hardhead to me. Same lips as always . . . . and I'm a dead scrimp chunker so I catch them ALL the time.From 1970-1997, true heaven on Earth existed on the banks of Bayou Cook. "Hey Dad, Thanks for buying the Camp."Comment
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Big hardhead. Same lips as alwaysComment
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Hardhead that just got his *** chewed by a shark...I bet your looks would change too if that happened to you!Don't be a Nancy!
If it smells like fish....you know I've been there!Comment
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All I can see is the slicks popping up in the background....Comment
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help with fish ID
That's a tourist trout.
Hard head I recognize those lips anywhere
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+1 on the HardheadComment
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Gafftop or hardhead..Comment
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