Howdy catfishtoon !

From what I understand about catfish, the love hiding places. Tires, drums, corrugated pipe, anything big enough that they can fit into (most of which you will want to find similar objects to avoid the bad materials in the water like rusting metal). The placement would be tricky. I say tricky because there are channels, blues, flats, bulls, etc. and have similar yet different places they like to be. I would research the habits and traits of the catfish in your water and build from there.

I do not know how true this is, so please research: I have been told by other anglers that a high population of catfish in a lake will decrease some other populations because some catfish are predatorial and eat small fish. This was the reasoning that my HOA used years ago to justify not stocking catfish in our ponds. Again I have not personally validated.