back in the day when Oso was still a decent fishery, I used to go out at night and flyline frozen mac for cats while casting for bass- for whatever reason, the bass in that lake loved the frozen mac- go figure- the shad were on the decline and the bass were starting to compete pretty hard for food, I'm sure that had something to do with it- but at the same time, the channel cats in that lake would whack artificials constantly, (blades, cranks, even buzzbaits a couple of times) most of them 6-8 pound fish. My guess is that they were all adapting to eat whatever was available, as the food they were used to eating was on the decline.