cat fish ??

[Fish n Jeep]

I'm not an avid cat fisherman, but I picked up some tidbits when I lived near the confluence of the Mississippi & Missouri Rivers in St Louis where the world record blue cat was caught. I would look for deep holes or areas with woody cover for the fish to hide in, and any sort of cut bait will work. Chicken livers or fish chunks. The larger more aggressive cats will take live bait.

Anecdotally, I caught a flathead by accident once on Mark Twain Lake with a 5" curly tail grub on a jig. A former coworker caught a big flathead in the Meramec River on a creature bait on a jig.

There are flatheads in the Delaware if you want to target them, otherwise channels have been stocked all over the place for a long time, and bullheads are almost everywhere.