Catfish bait?

[Outfishing13]

One option for non perishible bait is heavily salted cut bait.  Use medium coarse salt, like kosher pickling salt.  Get a 5 pound bag.  Cut up your white bass and pack it with lots of salt in a small tote.  Drain the liquid a couple times until it is fairly shrivled up and put it in a bag with some more salt.  

We used to fish for halibut with salted herring in Alaska.  It will last a long time like that.  Once you put it in the water it will start to soften up, but stays on your hook well.  

Matthew