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I listen to Jack Wingate on 106.3 every morning from 6:50 to 7:00...He gives the local fishing report and talks about the moon, weather and general hunting and fishing stuff.

This morning he was talking about hibernating flatheads. He said, FWC shocked some fish up in Missouri. They noticed a couple of flatheads had mud all over their bodies. So they hired some divers to go down and investigate. They supposingly took pictures of flatheads on the bottom half covered with mud with only their heads and some of their tail sticking out. He said they documented it up north and in the south only in the winter months though. I guess they mud up in the fall and sleep til it gets warmer. I will see if I can find some pics or more info.

A lot of our freshwater impounded fish, "hibernate" during the Winter, due to the extreme changes in our water temperature.
When you start catching them in the Spring, they often have leeches sticking to them , from their time in the mud.

Other species are partly dormant.
Barely moving and feeding for very short periods, in the warmest part of the day.

River fish remain active.
They have to keep moving, therefore they have to keep feeding.