The muddy bottom seemed to come alive with Bullheads (catfish).  I caught at least nine that evening.  The next night was just as active.  We used anything from chicken hearts to day-old hamburger (which seemed to work best).  I even caught my first Yellow Eel. 

Then the snapping turltes came on the third night.  These creatures are like hound dogs and they ended up chasing off all the fish.  It was easy to track them with a spot light through the shallow water.  They would hear the spash of the bait landing, and dart straight over, sometimes from as much as twenty yards away.

That night I reeled in three of them using 8 pound line.  They don’t struggle much, you just have to bring them in slowly.  By night four there was not a single catfish in sight.  It seems snapping turtles and other fish don’t play together well.