I used to use BEE Jays bait and it was good but awful messy. This past fall I used some Magic Bait dough balls in Night Crawler flavor, and that stuff stinks to high heaven and the fish seemed to really go for it. I also tried some of the dried shad, I found at Walmart and suprisingly the catfish really liked them to. They seemed to work best if you put 2 or 3 on a single hook.

So what is your favorite bait. Manufactured or homemade. What makes em bite for you?