[catfishonthelake]

My standard cat rig is an egg sinker rig with the lightest piece of bait that I can get away with. I catch a ton of of cats on livers (and a few stripers too), but I have to admit that I've hooked my share of turtles and eels with them. I'm gonna give your stinkbait a try, although I think I'm going to be on the trophy hunt this year and fish bluegills most of the time. I'm going to WV in a couple weeks and will be spending a few nights on the Monongahela fishing for shovelheads. I've caught a few small flatheads from the James in VA, but I'm still waiting on the 20 or 30, or 80-lber. Ain't nothin I love more than catching catfish. BTW Hatter, not sure if you've heard of them, but if you do a lot of river fishing, there are sinkers called no-roll sinkers. They're just like egg sinkers with the hole through them, except they're flat and won't roll along the bottom (and eventually get wedged under a rock) with the current. They make them from 1/2-oz all the way up to 5-oz. They'res a place in Illinois called the catfish connection that you can order them, and everything catfish from. I think they even have your stinkbait. We should definitley get together one night and compare notes.