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?