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Originally Posted by Flying Dutchman 
A) best bait needed (I use turkey livers. I also use crawdads when I catch them, those seem to be hit and miss)
B) local place to fish (I usually go to Lake Chuck at night)
Ok gang, help me out please..............
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For the past 15-20 years I have mostly fished with a fly rod in streams. I know that streams and SW Kansas are mutually exclusive....but back south when we wanted a good fish fry that meant either bream or catfish.
Catfish bait meant anything with "meat" that stunk. My grandmother raised chickens and ducks so often we used the innards from slaughtered fowl. If we were going to use something else like store bought gizzards or livers we would often buy them a day or two before and leave them out in the sun for a few days (it helps to leave them as far downwind and away from the house as possible).
For bream it was often crickets, grasshoppers, or artificial poppers. My go to "fly" for bream right now is a spider imitation which they can't seem to leave alone. I didn't like jigging for bass unless I was in a boat over structure or at a dam. My favorite non fly bass bait is any gold spinner bait with a single spoon and a green yellow skirt. Easy to fish a spinner while smoking too.
I would often use the pond in my neighborhood in dodge but using topo maps and satellite images like those found on google earth, i would locate farm ponds and go knock on doors asking permission to fish. The answer more often than not was yes. Try it.