Catfish
Flathead catfish dine predominantly on live fish. If you want to target flatheads, use a live shad or any legal bream or creek chubs.
Channels and blues like cut bait as in cut up shad or bluegills. Most people make the nistake of using to large of a piece of bait. I try not to use more than 3/4 " square chunk of whatever I'm using and it works well for me.
We also catch flatheads casting flukes and other swimbaits when we fish for stripers. To them it is a live fish swimming by. We also catch plenty of channels and blues that way too. Crankbaits catch a lot of catfish.
Throwing a bait out and letting it sit on the bottom is not the most effective way to fish. Better to use a slip bobber, and vary your setting, letting the bait drift with the current or wind and cover more water.
So, catch you some bluegills, cut up small pieces, put on a slip bobber, set it for a foot or two off the bottom, and catch some cats!!
It's easy to figure out the depth, just keep moving your bobber stop up your line until the bobber lays down. Now move your bobber stop back down towards your hook a foot or two and there you are, a foot or two off the bottom.
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