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Channel Cat or Blue Cat....? #40564 07/26/05 09:02 AM
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Lake Dallas G go_cat_go OP Junior Member
OP go_cat_go Junior Member G Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Lake Dallas	We catch a lot of channel cats & Blues in our local lakes here in Texas. The channels and the blues are easy to tell apart but we also catch a catfish (not a flathead or Op...)that resembles a channel or Blue but looks like a different species - it has a big head but it body is very poor - almost looks sick. We enough of these that it would be hard to dispell them as just being sick or deformed. Anyone know of someone who does "Fish Genetic analysis"...? We would like to send in a Channel Cat and a BlueCat and one of these Big Headed fish to see if they were of the same genetics of one or the other....

Re: Channel Cat or Blue Cat....? #40565 07/26/05 10:07 AM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 13,999 Likes: 285 Central Ohio Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker
Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker Joined: May 2004 Posts: 13,999 Likes: 285 Central Ohio	You could check out Texas Parks & Wildlife Catfish/Bullhead I.D. They have fairly good descriptions and pictures of the (common) cats in TX. "Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling

Re: Channel Cat or Blue Cat....? #40566 07/26/05 11:26 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas D Dave Davidson Lunker
Dave Davidson Lunker D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas	Sounds like sick fish to me that are having trouble feeding. I really doubt that it/they are of a different species. For some reason they are having trouble competing.

Re: Channel Cat or Blue Cat....? #40567 07/26/05 11:33 AM
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,027 North East Georgia B big_pond Lunker
big_pond Lunker B Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,027 North East Georgia	You know i have seen awide varity of Channel catfish, or what I think are catfish. I catch these in BIG public waters. Some of the channels are an Olive greenish color and others are more of a slate gray. Does any one know WHY this is? I usually catch this greener fish in Santee cooper, and chatch these grey looking channels in Westpoint lake in Georgia - Alabama.