Nice cats.. I never use commercial catfish bait when natural baits and chicken are so plentiful, but my theory is just about any catfish bait you can buy will catch catfish, they are not picky eaters. I have caught cats on the surface with white bread, fishing the bottom with crawfish and stonerollers, a cricket under a bobber, sweet corn under a bobber, a beetle spin, chicken liver, turkey heart and liver, pigeon liver, chicken breast, cut skipjack, gizzard shad, live bluegill, trolling a shad rap, and I could think of more..... but I still haven't used dip bait and I'm sure it would work just as well.