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Yellow Bullhead—The yellow bullhead is less common than either the brown or black bullhead, and appears to do well only where it doesn’t compete with its whiskered cousins. Yellow bullheads prefer clearer water than black bullheads and more vegetation than brown bullheads.

Yellow bullheads are distinguished by a long anal fin and chin whiskers that are yellow or white, never spotted or pigmented. Their coloration is much like the black bullhead, but generally more yellow.

Yellow bullheads average slightly larger than blacks and slightly smaller than browns. The largest specimen sampled in Ohio was 18.3 inches long and weighed 3 pounds 10 ounces. The world record yellow was a 4-pound 4-ounce trophy taken from Mormon Lake, Arizona, in 1984.