If you are going for smallmouth you are gunna want to use live crayfish because they love them

Interesting perspective, Rudy.

All of the above, I guess. It's situational. I don't use live bait much lately, kinda lazy.

Live baits fail the least.

crankbaits catch the biggest fish

All of the above. Don't use live bait much, except when my kids and I pick up a mess of nightcrawlers. Cranks/topwater/rubber frogs/worms for bass, jigs & soft plastics for crappie, same for bluegill. Livers/stinky stuff/bluegills for cats. Trout I go w/inline spinners then home-made dough. Unfortunately, that's about all the fish I can go for on my budget.

I like crank baits more than any other.

i like crank baits

Live bait catches fish when other things won't but sometimes artificial will produce bigger fish. Just depend on the situation I guess.

I mainly use crankbaits but i'll buy a pack of shiners every once in awhile

Live bait, when legal is still poor form. I would resort to it if I really needed a fish to feed hungry people.

i prefer live baits.

If you use live bait it will be moving around. All bass like minos. The small mouth love crayfish.

i like all of em