The catfish caught from the deep, clear, rocky end of our COE lake (Beaver Reservoir) are always better tasting than ones caught from the river end. I think they mostly eat mud burrowing crawfish, insects, and dead shad in the river end and cleaner crawfish and lots of TF Shad and sunfish in the deep, clear, rocky end. In the deep end, sometimes the larger catfish hang underneath schools of striped bass or white bass that are following enormous shad schools and clean up on crippled shad.
