I normally use weiner's, shad, even catfish nuggets that you buy at Wally World, yep they eat themselves, we do a lot of jug fishing and normally do pretty good, I've used shrimp soaked in vanilla extract before also, I've got a good friend who goes up to the **** and catches skip jack and cuts them ujp for bait, he always does better than me also, I just can't make myself go fishing for bait, just don't have the time for all that