Going for these monstrous predators is more like using live bait for muskies than fishing for any other species of catfish.
Big Flatheads are ugly creatures,at least if you poll the average fisherman. They lie on the bottom of some lake of river pool and do very little, other than eat once and a while. They don't fight, they dont leap or hit a lure, and they're dumb as a fence post to boot. The only people who bother to catch them are troutliners who pick one up once and a while, and their only redeeming features are that they're not to bad to eat, and at least get big enought to have bragging value.
Are you reading these words and nodding your head sagely, because I've just repeated every thing you've long known to be true about flathead cats?