Bait for fishing, minnows, not worms only.

Just above the hook or your bait will float on the water.

It’ll be all right for bait but it’s better with the ventral fin in.

It floated down towards the logs, then the weight of the line pulled the bait under the surface.

Often I ran out of bait because I would take only ten worms with me in a tobacco tin when I started.

The meadow was wet with dew and Nick wanted to catch grasshoppers for bait before the sun dried the grass.

Nick pulled hard on one oar so the boat would turn and the bait spinning far behind would pass where the trout was feeding.

He reeled in the slack line so the line ran taut out to where the bait rested on the sandy floor of the channel and set the click on the reel.

When a trout, feeding on the bottom, took the bait it would run with it, taking line out of the reel in a rush and making the reel sing with the click on.

Always though I found some kind of bait, but one time in the swamp I could find no bait at all and had to cut up one of the trout I had caught and use him for bait.

Sometimes the stream ran through an open meadow, and in the dry grass I would catch grasshoppers and use them for bait and sometimes I would catch grasshoppers and toss them into the stream and watch them float along swimming on the stream and circling on the surface as the current took them and then disappear as a trout rose.