What is your favorite.....

I use cut bait in both lakes and rivers. I try to use whatever is natural to the body of water I am fishing whether it be shad, skipjack or sunfish.

I always liked live bait. I really preffered eating flathead.

henry said:

I always liked live bait. I really preffered eating flathead.

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Back in the 80s I used to use BJ's catfish bait along with bluegills. Had pretty good success. I have not ran trout lines since the 90's. I sure do miss it though.
Mark

Back in the 70's we used cattle blood that we drew down with alum. Each day we poured off the water that collected on top of the gallon glass wide mouth jug. Once the blood had shrunk down to 2 inches thick from the original gallon we sliced it into inch squares. Kept those in a cooler and slide the eye of a small tremble hook into it and hooked it on a swivel on the trot line. Fished mostly in John Redmond in Kansas. This slowly released blood into the current and was very effective. Ran the lines every 2 hours.

Charlie’s dough bait rod n reeling on river. Hot dogs on lines. Yes, I’m lazy like that

I fish Reelfoot lake in Tn for channel catfish. On rod and reel I like using Sonny’s. When running yo-yos I like shrimp during the evening and night crawlers after dark. Using shrimp during daylight hours help keep the bluegill from stealing my bait.

In lakes I like cut shad. In rivers I used to have great results using Danny King punch bait, but apparently they changed the formula a few years ago.

In rivers, I like live greenies, and 6" bullheads. Tough to beat chicken liver on most small lakes

Whatever they’re used to eating.

Sonny’s, Chicken Liver, Turkey Lungs and Creek Chubs.

oneshot

The Big Grin likes Cats

5-7 inch goldfish n rod n reel

Shad gut, cut shad these days.

Chicken blood, we would hit a poultry plant and shovel a 5 gallon bucket of coagulated blood into 5 gallon bucket. Slice it up and lay on a plywood table at an angle and salt it until it quits draining. Still had feathers in it to help hold it together. Screens to keep flies off. Then use it just like he says, treble hook, swivel/clip and sliding sinker. Push eye through a square of blood, clip on and cast. Channels hit it and run, none of that tap tap crap.
Or pick up beef spleen from slaughter, cut it up. Use same way, called it beef melt, full of blood and won’t come off the hook without a knife.
Really anything nasty works for blues and channels.

For flatheads I use live bluegill or perch. For channels, chicken liver or fish heads. Blues I use fresh caught shad.