Channel cat or Blues? My uncle was a died in the wool trotliner on Kaw. Crawdads were the only bait he would use catching channel cat in shallower water.I know grandpa was filling his freezer with fillets using crawdads on Gibson when all the experts said he could only use fresh caught shad.
I tried crawdads on the same lake using jugs along the old river channel. weight at 20' Hook depths at 15', 12' and 9'. The lines with crawdads never lost a bait. We filled both ice chests with blues from the cut shad. No channels.