I enticed a 28 inch CC with a nightcrawler last night. He looked to be very well fed so I performed a little surgery. His gut was packed full of pond weeds (curley leaf pondweed and FA are very heavy in my pond) and, I assume, patially digested pellets. Are pondweeds part of the catfish diet, or do you suppose it is inadvertent ingestion? Question #2: Do CC lose their spots with age?

If they're hungry, they'll eat vegetation. I caught a 24 incher Sunday that upon autopsy looked to have eaten a lot of FA recently.

Mine seem to have fewer spots than when they were little. IIRC, literature frequently states that "young" CC have spots.

How much will you guys charge me to come down to Texas and teach mine to eat duckweed? :rolleyes:

$45/hour plus expenses, but I've got to warn you, it could take a few years.