[thmyorke1]

@dakota560,

As good of a explanation you have, you should bring those points to the biologists. They're a great bunch of folk and they're just as interested as you. The fisheries forum (hoping that it's open this winter) is a good opportunity to talk with them on the subject.

Currently we sit on flatheads deemed invasive and I figure most people who dont release em back agree with you, yet also just have to follow the rules.

While you make great points on them in the Delaware, what about other bodies of water? I imagine flatheads in impounded waters like a lake can ruin a fishery. I dont know too much about flatheads in lakes/reservoirs so an opportunity for me to learn about that.

Andy makes a good point too, regardless of their feeding window being smaller than that of other big fish species, these things get huge for a reason (I always love the imagery of a 50 lb flathead eating flies ontop water lol). Another reason is Displacement. Similar case with the brook trout, it's not that brown trout are eating them all, it's that the browns are pushing the brookies out of their habitat into the skinniest of headwaters.