What Bait Should You Use When You're Trout Fishing? The Various Types Of Trout Fishing Bait
When you're deciding on trout fishing bait, you need to know which ones are the best. There's a vast array of baits for trout fishing to go with but choosing the one you should use can be difficult. So what should you use?
Natural Food Baits
Now, you can use cheese, corn or marshmallows but they should only really be given to stocked trout, which are raised in aquariums and farms, then released, only to be caught by fishermen again! Of course if waters are too high where stocked fish are, you should choose a different type of water.
Synthetic Baits
Okay, so if you decide that you don't want to use the above natural trout baits, you still have more options. If you've ever been to a fishing store/outlet, you'll know what these are. The more popular is the Berkley Powerbait. Using a set of gang hooks, the powerbait is a killer combination for catching trout in a variety of waters.
A Look At Live Bait
You don't have to use food or synthetic bait as your trout fishing bait. Instead, you can go with live bait like crickets, grasshoppers, maggots, mealworms and worms. Most people, when they use live bait tend to use worms. Why? You put a live worm on a gang hook and bounce it along the bottom of the flowing river; this action drives the trout crazy and they'll immediately frenzy for it.
Bait Fish
Trout love smaller fish and they'd rather go for live bait than most others. However, if you get good quality whitebait that's been frozen in a fishing tackle store, it can do just as well to catch trout.
Grasshoppers
During the summertime, trout prefer grasshoppers. If you plan to catch them yourself, use a fine net like a butterfly net and use it through the tall grass to catch them when they fly or jump. Be sure to place a small hook through the their wing base. It doesn't matter if you weigh them down or not... either way is fine.
Mudeyes
The larvae stage of a dragonfly is called a mudeye, and trout consider this bait a delicacy. You have two choices for obtaining mudeyes. You can either find them on your own, looking under gravel, rocks or underwater logs in either farm dams or lakes or you can buy them through a tackle shop.
Bear in mind that mudeyes have been a proven trout fishing bait and so they can cost a pretty penny. How you present the mudeye can make the difference between catching trout and not catching. Be sure to use an obscure light number 10 hook through the mudeyes stomach and use an extremely light trace (no more than three kilograms) poised under a bubble float.
Worms
If you want a cheap trout fishing bait, you can't get any cheaper than worms. On top of that, they're always available when you need them. You can either get them from a tackle shop or dig the worms up yourself. If you plan to raise your own worms, you can feed them your table scraps.
Worms can be easily hooked, as they're quite resilient. There are several kinds of worms such as the garden, red wrigglers and scrub worms. If you use worms for trout fishing, be sure to use a tiny, light hook so that the worm can move freely without killing itself.
Other Types Of Bait To Use
Keep in mind that trout will eat a wide range of food; thus, you should do some searching around for natural trout food like ants, beetles, grubs, insects, etc. While bait is important when you're fishing for trout so is how you present your bait; you want to ensure that it's as real and natural looking as possible.
Good luck and happy fishing!
Mark Stevens is a trout fishing expert with 20 years experience. For more great tips on
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