best catfish baits

The best bait is what they feed on naturally... Shad is the usual preference of the fish where shad are located but people place too much on baits when they should be focusing on the environment the fish are in and locate the fish instead of going out ... sitting in one public fishing hole and throwing every kind of bait they can think of until a fish happens to come through or mess with dinks all day long with those chicken livers. focus more on fish location instead of some kinda magic potion and you'll do a lot better ... fish structure ... current eddies ... humps ... anything to locate the fish cause just sitting in one spot and throwing all kinds of baits at them makes about as much sense as going bass fishing on the dam of a pond and throwing every bait there is at them that you have in your tackle box all day long and never moving and when you throw that last lure you have at them and nothing takes the bait then you pack up and go home and tell the wife ... they weren't biting today. .... when this same guy would normally be working the creek and around stumps and whatever else is in the pond ... wonder why catfishermen don't view catfishing the same way because that's how you have to do catfishing too ... you can't just sit in one spot and expect to catch fish or think the fish are there ... you just need to figure out what they'll bite on ... it ain't like that.