I got this channel cat in the dark on a dead shiner that I cut in half. I am finding that the channel cats like the dead cut bait but the flat heads seem to go after live bait. So i have been fishing with live minnows and then they die I pull out my knife cut them in half and cast it back out. I wish I knew somone that wanted to clean and eat the channel cats. I have been catching alot of them that are good eating size. Not too big not too small. I am still waiting and trying to sink my hook into one of the monster flatheads. I know they are in there.