I told you what to use... 1 - 3 inch baby bluegills. Those fat channels love them. If you can catch the gizzards they like those, but they don't pay much attention to the threadfins.

Is baiting legal in Texas? If I still lived by LA I would probably bait me a hole or two with soured corn, or millet. Dog and cat food (kibbles) can work too. I know of a place (plead the 5th on this one..I stumbled accross it..I swear!) at LA that is baited, and I have had a few good fish fry's off of that hole.....All eater size channel's. It was a close( to old house) diamond in the rough for crappie and channels. If you like sandies, I've had good luck trolling/throwing rattle traps there too.
They also like the baby blugills as mentioned by MR. I catch little perch at the bowman springs ramp with the cast net.More big gizzards(let throw net hit bottom), and threadfin at Arkansas ramp...good luck.

I can hardly ever find perch at LA do yall use them live ?

Either or. I use them live w/ a shot of red dead on them. You can cut the tail off too and do just fine on channels. You have a better chance of hooking up w/ a yellacat if you leave them alive.

The crappie love those threadfins tho...

just put them on a plain jig head.

Have any of you fished the Village Creek walk trails up off Dottie Lynn?

If your talking about the place on the left going to lake arl it looks li 2-3feet deep all they way across last time I went by there you would be better off going under hwy 20 just watch out there is a crazy bum down there he was yelling and throwing beer bottles at me last time I went I told him he needed to calm down before he was found floating and he left he has a tent under the bridge

I've floated a long ways down village creek...

Dottie lynn is not by village creek is it ? It's by the damn side that I'm talking about

i dunno... i just read village creek and spouted off.

dottie lynn is north end, village creek is south!