Structural habitat consists of inundated timber, brush, creek channels, and riprap. Submerged aquatic vegetation coverage is low; however, high densities of emergent and floating plants are present. All three of the freshwater catfishes abound in excellent numbers in W/P. The blues and channels prefer stink bait, shrimp and liver that's worked slowly around creek entrances and over natural humps. Big yellows, fished for primarily with juglines baited with live perch, are regularly pulled from the lake at this time of the year.

Lake Texoma, sitting on the Texas-Oklahoma border, is a magnificent impoundment for all types of angling - and the action for really big whiskerfish is superb. Many of the world and state records for catfish are held by Lake Texoma anglers. Home of enormous blue cats (116 pounds!), it's also home to channel and flathead cat populations that will make the Texoma angler very happy indeed. The big blues in the lake prefer large live baits, so if you're jugging for them around the dam, be sure to use the largest perch or shad you can catch; use live perch and shad for the yellow cats, too. Throw almost anything you want at the channels: shrimp, punch bait, liver, chicken parts - whatever you can find that smells the worst!

The catfish in Lake Richland-Chambers may be easy to please, but over in Cedar Creek they're a bit more particular. In this 34,000-acre lake, you'll find submerged vegetation in the backs of coves in the lower end of the reservoir. Some vegetation is present in the upper end of the lake, but the water there is very shallow. When the cats come into the shallows at night, this is a good place to be rigged up with cut shad and perch. You should also look for submerged islands located across the lake from the confluence of Clear and Caney creeks. Work them with the same bait or try a gob of night crawlers to see if you can generate some interest.

Nearby Calaveras Lake, only 20 miles south of San Antonio, is an even better fishery for Mr. Whiskers than Braunig is. It's a small impoundment, just 3,500 acres, and similar in structure and habitat to Braunig. But the channel cat fishing in Calaveras is considerably better than it is in Braunig. The baits of choice are stink bait, chicken liver, shad and tilapia. Work the riprap and cormorant roosts in this lake too, and if you don't have any luck, fish along the edges of the lake wherever you can locate submerged structure in 10 to 15 feet of water.