[mcolem00]

I would say use bluegill, shad (either alive or cut), shiners, or creek chubs. Just anything you would normally catfish with. The only prolem I see with chicken livers or nightcrawlers is bluegill will peck them off. Then livers are naturally hard to keep on hooks anyways. Unless you use pantyhose to cover them, or I use a snap and a treble hook, and just take the treble hook everytime and put the shaft of the hook through the chicken liver.

Using live bait you will have a good shot at catching the bigger size cats, or bass and stripers...