Some of your grandpas would also tell you that $20 bar you just ordered—you know, the one infused with bamboo fibers and birch oil—likely won’t catch any channel catfish ... chance the bait will fly ...

We called crappies white perch. But the top of the line fish bait, good for big bream, catfish on a trotline or goggle eye in a slough off the river, had to be catalpa worms. Country folk ...

Top-water lures, plastic worms or jig and pigs are the best lures. Bluegill and redear fishing is good with worms. Catfish are biting all types of catfish bait. Nightcrawlers, liver or stink bait ...