Artie:

once I watched two guys empty a lake of catfish while I was bassing on both sides of them and they were using Kentucky fried chicken skin cut in strips one inch wide and 3 – 4 inches long folded over and it looked like a ribbon stuck on the hook when it was cast. I have mentioned it here and only one other person I know had tried it and recommended it. big big catfish would eat bluegill as would the bass if food gets in short supply. and they eat anything that was once alive. They own the bottom of all waterways. I always fished the conrock quarry up the 605 for bass almost thirty years ago and used spinner baits very effectively there I would standing thirty feet from the corners and cast across the 90 degree corners about 30 feet past the corner but on to the opposite bank than me and then dragged the spinnerbait off the ledge(s) letting it fall down into the water but bouncing it kinda working it like a jig, making it flutter and fall.