Later, they move to deeper water. Try using sweet meat. Around brush piles and other cover, use dunking minnows and small jigs. The channel catfish is a stream fish but due to stocking, its range has been increased. Adult fish can be found near cover in large pools and deep holes.
Anglers can use pole and line, trotlines and limblines.
Bait can be worms, cutbait, liver, and blood and stink bait. Blue Catfish-Largest member of the catfish family. It is a native of the Red River and tributaries of the lower Arkansas. It has been stocked into reservoirs across the State of Oklahoma. Anglers should fish tailwaters below dams and reservoir tributaries.