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Smokey McFisher
if your willing to take a little drive, bonniville dam might have some monsters. also i always see people fishing from the shore under the I205 bridge on the oregon side, next to the airport. not sure how good the fishing is there though. my friend and i have been trying to break the oregon state record for channel cat (without much luck so far).
hope this helps.
Best bait I ever used was white crawdad tails. Used to find irrigation ditches and made myself a little seine, scooped up a few crawdads, then went fishin'. Caught mostly blues and yellows. One time I was trolling for anything that would bite, in the San Joaquin river with a 6" rebel lure. Got a nice strike, set the hook, and reeled in a nice fat, you guessed it, catfish! Kind of a pleasin' surprise, it was. Even heard tell they'd strike a fly! Magine that! Anyway, lots o' luck tryin' yer hand at it. It's actually a very good eating fish, in my poorly opinion. Ol-tymer
Yeah, used to catch little bullheads out near the first buoy near Emeryville, then use em' fer bait fishin' fer stripers in the bay. Great fun! Ol Tymer