Sunil - thanks on the BH (people usually think I contribute BS). The little bell in my brain never went to bullheads.
Yes, bullheads are common trash fish in the farm ponds around here. I assume they are also in the stream.
Could someone please PM the moderator that does the fish acronyms so we can add BH to the list?
I learned how many bullheads can live in a Kansas BOW when I was about six-years old. A very nice farmer used to give us access to his 30 acre watershed lake. My little brother and I probably caught 20 good-sized LMB on a morning excursion with my father and maternal grandfather. When the LMB strikes slowed down, my bass-purist father was ready to go home.
My grandfather, said to wait a second because he wanted to try something. He dug up two shovel-fulls of earthworms and took us to a mud flat at the corner of the dam. He put about a 1/4" of worm on a small hook with a small weight and told us to cast it out "in the middle". My father started to protest once he fully realized the plan, but managed to hold his tongue. Needless to say, a small BH hit as soon as the first worm hit the water.
In my memory, my brother and I each caught at least 100 bullheads. I know for certain that is the most fish I ever caught in a single day. We only quit because my grandfather got tired of baiting my little brother's hook and removing small wiggling bullheads. I don't think the supply of bullheads ever diminished. Who knows how much of the biomass of the lake was made up of bullheads?
