It's derived from the fish's sharp pectoral fins, or horns, and from the word pout, which means big-headed fish. Other colloquial names include paperskin, mudcat, stinger, snapper, butterball, bullcat, and bullpout. Baits, Tackle, Techniques Bullheads take a wide range of live and dead offerings. While using a piece of tomato can for bait might be stretching your luck, there's no denying that these nocturnal feeders are not temperamental. My favorite bait is chicken liver.
Worms rank a close second.
Stinkbait concoctions also work well. Bullheads feed around the clock, but the night bite is usually best. Catch them from shore or boat, zeroing in on weedbed edges, river bends, channel drops, underwater humps, inundated ponds, boat docks, and long points. Water turbidity seems to have little to do with the catch rate. Bullheads tolerate high levels of turbidity better than most fish, and since they feed primarily by taste and smell, low visibility is not a problem.