I've caught them on a jig & pig fishing for bass several times.

when the white flies are coming off on the Susquehanna here in central PA, you can catch anything in the river on the surface, catfish are common, walleye are too... even the carp get in on the feeding frenzy and hit on the surface...

I have caught several cats while trolling for white bass before. It is always fun to pul in a nice cat while trying to trol.

I have seen catfish rise to flies...though not very often. They typically are bottom feeders but then I have heard of them eating just about everything at one time or another.

They eat anything

The wife and I went fishing and werent catching ANYTHING until we switched to rubber minnows. We caught about 13 catfish in a little uder 3 hours. Rubber minnows you may ask??? The answer is yes about 1 inch long. We got some pretty decent sized ones too, over 13 inches.

blue catfish and yellow bullheads only eat live bait unlike most other catfish i do alot of catfishing and caught them on just about everything
the bulls youll see near shore in small lakes and ponds swimming in circles with there dorsal fins slightly out the water imatating a flie to lure small fish

its cool to watch them strike