Those are nice fish Robby and I like the headstone too. Below what your headstone says you ought to put your slogan catchabigin, you got to be the originator, if not put it on anyway. Do the rivers out your way hold flatheads too.
Dan
Many of the rivers do indeed have flathead.
Because of many stressors the flathead in rivers
very seldom reach their full potential size.
We can catch numbers of 20-30 pound flathead during
certain times on the rivers but big fish are extremely
rare.
Most of the guys requesting information from me here start in rivers and are frustrated in their quest for 40+ pound flathead. My last 3 partners all had years of river flatheadding experience and asked to fish with me to see if their techniques or baits were wrong. Now they seldom fish the rivers.
You know how it is:
Once you go 50+ you never go back 
aanderud
That sasquatch thing is a touchy subject. When
them boyz at Salt Fork start on bigfoot stories I keep
quiet.
Once I thought they were joking and said
something cute and they got terribly upset. I
been outside at night for over 50 years and
never seen one. I guess that makes us even
since they never seen a 50 lb flathead
Brian
Another little one last night.
I fished alone so I snapped a pic on the
deck before releasing this 38.
Nice fish Robby 
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aanderud
That sasquatch thing is a touchy subject. When
them boyz at Salt Fork start on bigfoot stories I keep
quiet.
Once I thought they were joking and said
something cute and they got terribly upset. I
been outside at night for over 50 years and
never seen one. I guess that makes us even
since they never seen a 50 lb flathead
Ha, next time someone tries telling bigfoot stories, ask them for pics. Then when they point to the blurry photos of the man dressed as an ape, you should tell them to put the sasquatch in a decoy bag until daylight so they can get better pics.
Sept 10
I never know the size of flathead
when I set the hook.
This 29 pound female ate a fillet sized bluegill.
My current PB is stuck at 41″ and 43 lbs, or something like that…
I need to update that beastie… gonna be hard up here unless I go out with River Rat Randy. 
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gonna be hard up here unless I go out with River Rat Randy
and he’s in a wheelchair.
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gonna be hard up here unless I go out with River Rat Randy
and he’s in a wheelchair.
I know!
I know this other guy who fishes pool 3 and 4, but we never seem to find the big fish when I’m out with him… I think he secretly pays them to stay home when I’m along. 
Brian
I am still looking for a biggun.
Seems like I have to sort through the smaller ones this year.
Robby, how do you target flats in a lake?
We have a river that widens out and it does have some flow but it’s hardly noticeable. Very little structure if any. Some sand points.
I know looking in areas with feeder creeks/rivers dump in would be a good start. Anything you could add to that?
Brian
You already know that submerged brush is prime cover.
If the area lacks that you must search for some structure
that provides overhead cover. Flathead spend most of their
time innactive in their home. They seek something over their head.
I find that areas with very little structure like this make finding the flathead easy. Stretches of river with logjam after logjam take exhaustive trial and error to locate which ones hold trophy flats.
I have caught reclusive flathead from small spots. These big females security cover were docks in 2 feet of water.
Waiting out those flathead is a painful operation.
Right now our flathead are ready to start migration and we are targetting submerged channels that they use as pathways.
I have a lake where the flathead stage from a huge shallow bay into another big bay with deeper water. I may catch these flathead till Nov as the roam the bay searching for food before continuing to their winterring holes.
Oct6, 2012
Brian,
Fished the bay I spoke of last night.
I lost one on a stump.
Nice catch Robby, Did you get those on limblines and bluegills.
Wow That’s a nice bunch of flatheads. They all look about the same size.
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Nice catch Robby, Did you get those on limblines and bluegills.
All my fish are caught on rod and reel.
Whatever bait we could get. Mostly bluegill.
This time of year it is an adventure just
to get bluegills.
2 weeks ago two of my buddies caught 15 flathead before running out of bait.
Good job on that release. It’s pretty cool to see them big boys just disappaear into the murky river like that. Heck, I’d be satisfied with one of those in an evening. But then, I probably don’t spend the time it takes to get that many in one trip.
Thanks for the video and the release.
L8R…Ken
They sure are pretty! 
Oct 24
Thought I would give it another try.
Fished a few hours during daylight. Such a
nice day I couldn’t stay inside.
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