GRAHAM — Graham-Mebane Lake, 3218 Bason Road, Mebane, sponsors several bank-fishing catfish tournaments each summer, and this year’s will be held on Saturdays, May 17, June 14 and July 12, from 8 p.m.

This photo from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a channel catfish. The water was big and brown, the willows flooded past the shoreline. It was not likely to matter to the catfish. If ...