I've caught them on various lures. Rat-L-Traps, Road Runners, Mepps spinners, Beatle Spin, Bass Jigs, various soft-plastic worms and lizzards, slabs and even a gummy worm. I think the best one was a dry fly that I made to look like the floating fish food we used to feed the channel cats in my dad's stock tank way back when. We would feed the fish and really get them gorging on the food. When it was just about all gone, I'd toss that fly right in front of a feeding fish. He would vacuum that thing up in a matter of seconds. By the way....a 3 or 4 lb channel cat will put up a heck of a fight on a fly rod.