For me live crawfish, chubs, and bluegill. My top 5 LMB have all come on bluegill in the 6" range. Big flatheads love bluegill as well. A 5/0 circle hook just before or just after the dorsal fin does the trick.
At the river big chubs and crawfish work excellent for the hybrids and strippers as well as all the catfish and drum one could ever catch!