Chicken livers, or some cut up fish will work. I cut up fish nd let them sit in the sun or let them sit in some chicken liver blood....we were literally hooking them not even 30 seconds after they hit the water. We'd cast out, go to sit one rod in the holder and by the time we got it to the holder, it was fish on.
Conowingo Dam is a wonderful place!
I've still yet to try livers since they're so hard to keep on but maybe I'll make some of those bags you can put them in while on the hook. I've used cut bait before but never caught anything, then again that was in places with just small bullheads so maybe I'll try them somewhere that there's more predatory cats.





