Any white bass to loan?

[TubeDude]

Randy and Kent, do you mind sharing what baits you have used and what worked best? I've only been doing this catfishing for a couple of years, and haven't find anything better than wb. Shrimp and worm works okay in my experience and early on I caught some on chicken liver. They turned up their noses at perch, Little Smokies and hotdogs (as I say, in my experience). Kool-Aid/Jello/garlic chicken worked fine. 

I hope you two can get down here and join one of our mini-flotillas soon. May's a coming. I saw 61° water yesterday.

I'm not Randy or Kent but I will chip in on this question.  Over the years I have either fished or observed almost any kind of bait imaginable being fished for catfish.  Almost ANYTHING will work...sometime.  And I don't remember ANYTHING that has not caught catfish at one time or another. 

Most cat chasers tend to lean towards using only two or three kinds of bait...mostly based on individual trips on which those baits produced well.  But anyone who arbitrarily excludes any particular bait...or who uses only one bait all year round under all conditions...is probably limiting themselves to only occasional banner days.  On Utah lake their are cycles of water temperature, food availability, individual fish food preferences, etc.  And I have proven to myself that some baits...on some days...will demonstrably outfish all other baits.  That's why it is usually wise to carry at least a couple of different baits and give them a good chance for the fish to tell you what they prefer.

My "holy trinity" on Utah Lake are chub minnows, white bass (small whole ones or larger chunked or stripped ones) and carp meat...either cut in small strips or big chunks.  But I also do well on baby carp and on yellow perch...whole small ones or cut up larger ones.  However, I catch a lot of cats...and some pretty good sized ones...on small jigs tipped with worm.  And I used to use shrimp a lot...along with anchovies, mackerel or other odiferous salt water fish.  It's all good.  But I have gradually evolved (devolved) into preferring the baits most natural to Utah Lake cats.

Here is a section carved out of my larger writeup on UL catfish...on CATFISH BAITS.  Might help give you some ideas.  As if any cat chaser needed new ideas.