best bait

I am looking around for the best bait. what I want to know is you favorite bait and how to use it thanks!

For crappie, my go-to bait is minnows. I have caught them on jigs, worms, and crank baits too.

In my opinion, the very best bait you can use is maggots. Most tend to think of them as nasty creatures but crappie don't seem to think so. Real easy to acquire too, I typically just go hot and catch a nice sized carp or catfish, or lots of small carp if I can't get ahold of a good one; usually gut him and then dig a shallow grave. Throw it in, cover it up and check back in a short amount of time. The maggots will start to grow on there, then you just collect and stick them in cornmeal and toss in the fridge. Stay good for a couple weeks ussually

grass shrimp,,,,I use every trip,everything hits them,I even get 4 times more shellcrackers on shrimp then I do on worms,all of my crappie are on shrimp

For Crappie, minners would be my choice but I seem to do just as well with tied jigs or tubes.
For blue gill, red worms and crickets
Catfish, cut bait - Shad
Everything is night crawlers lots of time only use 1/2 - 1/3 of a crawler

Wish I Coukd get some grass shrimp around these parts,mm great bait for trout too!

minnows and waxworms. Always good to tip your jigs to entice better bites.

fathead minnows. hands down my favorite bait for crappie and panfish fishing.