Thank you! I never heard of a Madtom before joining this site. Glad I was able to catch one... i'll try again next year to get a few more It is definitly a Tadpole Madtom!

Thanks again,
Steve

When I was a kid, I went to this petstore called Scott's Petshop (It has gotten bigger since, and is a very nice store for fish, Westchester, IL), and they had this fish labled as a freshwater shark in a tank with some Flordia gars. One of the workers said it was in the catfish family, and came from ...

I was just looking at them, and I does look like either the tadpol or brown madtom....i'll try and take a better pic if i can get it. anything I should lookfor that will tell them apart? the cat-elog pics of them are not the best either.

this one did sting my mom in the finger, and she said her ...

Caught this with a net off shore. I have caught other baby bullheads that are pure black in color, but this one seems to be a light brown. Here is the best pic I could take. He hides a lot, so I can't take a better one right now.

I am thinking it could be a yellow bullhead, but I am not sure ...