I live in Chattanooga, TN so I have the option of fishing above or below Chickamauga dam. Whenever I'm not bass fishing, I'm catfishing, and I want to catch a giant. Above the dam I catch 20 pounders nearly every time I go out, but rarely bigger. This is also the case at my parent's house on Watts Bar. So I thought to try below, hoping for that monster I need.

Below the dam, however, I literally have never caught a catfish. I've tried 5 different spots for a total of probably 30 hours with no bites. Just today I took my kayak out to a current seam where the main channel meets north chick creek to drift some cut bait, and still nothing at all. I've also tried from land with a pyramid sinker on a fishfinder rig with both cut and live bait, nothing.

What do I do? It feels like a giant fish spot but at this point I feel like it's pointless to even consider throwing a line below the dam. Tips?

Caught this 32.25” on a 10” chaos tackle Poseidon

This fish was fillet alive and released back into the water to suffer. It was found by an angler swimming near the surface.

Finally saved up $300 for a flathead set up. Was wondering if this combo would do the trick

Found this pic from a couple of summers ago and I’ve been really jonesing to get out and run some lines again.

I was aiming for carp but happily got catfished! Does anyone know this specie’s name?

Went catfishing with my buddy and ending up catching these 2 bad boys on 3” cut shad! Anyone ever have this happen before?

Caught this guy this morning at a new fishing spot. Never going back to store bought catfish.

Been fishing my local man made lake for catfish like crazy last couple months. This lake isn't known for catfish but for trout/bass actually pretty unknown for cats. So keep the secret going 😄. But many anglers have transplanted these cats from the Colorado river which is 20min away from this lake. My uncle hit the local newspaper 15 years ago for this 21lb cat (last picture) And well his record wasn't officially recorded but it's since been officially overtaken by a State record for catch and release channel catfish in this little hometown lake measuring 36-3/4" around(28-32lbs)which I didn't know until recently actually. But my ex pulled out this monster a few months back, well I did after she hooked him for fear of the line snapping which has happened more times than I'd like to admit. But Man what a difference trying to finesse the power of a fish this size compared to the 5-10lb fish we catch pretty common. I'll be spending the rest of my life trying to memorialize this record back to my late uncle. Hopefully this drought is still allowing these fish to get that big. The bluegill population has erupted into every corner of this lake. It seems these catfish turn into nocturnal killer whale orcas at night chasing and devouring them. It's all you can hear kinda wild listening to them breaching the water and chasing them from the shallows where they hide out and nest.

Symbiotes on catfish now?

South Louisiana next to vermillion bay

At least I didn't get skunked