Favorite blue and channel cat bait for jugs

For blues, fresh cut bait or chicken hearts soaked in strawberry jello mix.

Skipjack is probably the best for blue cats but usually expensive

Cut up one of those big invasive carp. Bloody and the skin keeps the bait on the hook. They dont freeze but usually free and easy to fund.

For flatheads use anything live. Best bait is live baby Buffalo and carp. Catch them in a wooden catfish slat trap with soybean meal bait. Second best is live perch followed by goldfish.

I also use chicken livers because they're cheap and easy to get. Hook them through the main artery to keep them on the hook.

Like you said live crawfish is always a good choice.

Ivory soap coated in strawberry jello powder, for channels. But be careful with the jello powder, it will permanently stain your fishing tuxedo.

I've been having decent luck with zote laundry soap.

Deer liver is my #1 and beef heart is my #2. Usually fish for blues in brackish water.

Beef heart cut up and soak with some liver. Put a piece of both on the hook.

Red Bar S hotdogs work as good as anything I’ve used and the smell of a hotdog washes off way easier

#1 Live Shad, #2 live bream #3 cut shad, #4Catalpa worms.

That’s my list. Would rank catalpas a little higher but they are like finding hens teeth these days.