>>2479190For channel cats, best luck I ever had was with pic related and the jars of real sticky dip bait, not the dough balls. Coat the hell out of one of these little rigs and cast it out.
For common carp, a can of sweet corn does ok, but I think I did a little better with some white bread. Get some Wonder Bread and a treble hook and rip off like 1/3 a slice of bread with no crust and mold it around the treble hook.