What's the best catfish bait for Clearlake??

Hitting Clearlake this weekend and wanting to target catfish any opinions on the best bait and setup to use??

Coors lite

Live minnows or cut bait.(mackerel)
I've had good luck with PBR

minnows

Carolina rig - I use a 12# flouro/mono leader if going only for cats.

Jumbo minnows, night crawlers, crawdads, mackeral, sardines all work well. 

Lots of big fish to 22 lbs caught during the annual catfish tournament last weekend.  Been windy but forecast to lay down a bit this weekend.  Have fun.

Craw dads or the fresh meat from the tail. Shrimp works really good to.
Honestly you will probably get the best info at a local baits hop up there.

What bird said

Live minnows or cut bait.(mackerel)
I've had good luck with PBR

+1 or a dead mouse 

Makes me want to go fish clear lake for cats now.... 

Minnows and sardines. Use two rods for a chance at a real clustetrfuck that's real fun.

Hahhahaahah Craig I can see that now.... Chicken livers work well too. Road kill that is ripe... Toss it out there they will come. Caught a BIG one on a dead road tenderized Rat once

I guess if it takes something real ripe and stinky I could ask 9rfan for his socks

I'm all out. Sancho took em

Duck guts.

Catfish are like the bear at GS7 ...they will eat just about anything. As a Kid we used to go into Thrifty Drug Stores for the 5 cent a scoop ice cream cone (yup, I am that old). The trick was to  get your buddy to sniff  the jar of catfish bait (stiiiiinky!!!) and then grind the jar on the end of his nose and run for the hills. That stuff stuck with you for awhile..