You might also want to try using circle hooks. Ive seen a lot of cat fishermen using these and they swear by them!!!

I'm heading to harts tonight to try for some of these bad boys. What kind of dough bait were you using? I think I'm just gonna throw crawlers at 'em. THough I've got some catfish bait made by berkly but its never worked for me though.
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