Where can i go trout fishing using bait?
Trout will take bait in most of the same places they’ll take a fly. You just have to find some trout that are feeding and get the right bait to them. If you’re fishing in a stream or river, bait works best in medium and slower places. If you fish with bait in riffles and fast-moving runs, you’ll do a lot more casting and repositioning of your tackle, which can be hard on bait. But it can be done — use a small bobber, cast upstream and let your bait dead drift past you in the current as far as it will go, then repeat. Cover the whole stream from bank to bank this way. Vary the amount of line between your bobber and bait so that you fish the entire water column. In slow areas you can use a sinker, cast your bait, and wait for patrolling trout to find it. I see guys fishing the backwaters and slow bends of my home river and they catch trout with a huge variety of bait, from Powerbait to hamburger to sausage to mealworms to earthworms. Some use bait on a hook with splitshot about a foot u
