Drifter

It took Beacher longer than he figured to find the Colorado River. By the time he made camp, the sun was at the west back. "Just right, " he said to himself. He cut some bank poles and found some toad frogs. "The smaller ones work better, " Beacher thought. "Now all I need are some hooks and line, with no weights. Just run your hook under the frog's backbone near his hind legs, and he won't bleed a bit.
He'll swim toward the bank all night." Tolbert knew that the forked-tail catfish was a top feeder, unlike the round-tail, yellow catfish which fed off the bottom.