are ya lake fishing or river fishing? I have been catching a few out on the lower missouri river, near a warm water discharge. using shad guts, cut shad and skipjack. nuttin big though. a friend of mine has been doin good on the misissippi near st louis. same bait. he has been finding them near the deep holes with light current. the blues in the lakes here in missouri are really stacked up under the shad schools.find a wind blown cove and watch your graph for big balls of shad, then look for huge stacks of fish on the bottom. key areas are mouths of windy coves and the ledges and points around the channel of the coves. don't stop to fish until ya find a crapload of catfish underneath schools of shad. and use fresh bait out of the water you are fishing.