What would be a good bait for .....?

Question

1. A small river in connecticut

2. A small pond with fish such as bass, trout, blue gill, sunfish, pumpkin seed and maybe carp

Answer 1

An inline spinner such as a Mepps, Rooster Tail, Vibrax or Panther Martin in a white or chatruese color would be a great bait for river fishing. Tube baits rigged on a jig head or Texas rigged in a pumpkinseed pepper color can also be very productive.
Do you like to fish on top? Use a popper like a Matsuo, Yo-Zuri or Rebel Pop-R. A Rapala minnow chrome side/black back in a small size 2"-4" can be VERY good!
Don't expect to catch any carp on lures unless you happen to snag one.

Good fishin' friend!

Answer 2

The river try a small tube bait, and or a Helgrammite....they now make them out of soft plastic.
One place I do business with carries them...link is http://www.backwatersonline.com/category.cfm?Category=533

With the pond you probably could not go wrong with a small craw fish crank bait, and yes trout will eat a craw fish if they get the chance as well the others, but not sure about the carp.

Tight Lines

Answer 3

Don't know about the river but pond fising is always good on worms. Check out what lives around the pond. Are grasshoppers out? Using bait that is currently natural to the area is best. For carp though, don't laugh- canned corn.

Answer 4

Bass are all round good lovers for bait such as fly night crawlers and plain worms, i once cough a 2 foot large mouth bass with only a luar, think it was a smaller fish. i think that goes for trout and blue gill

Answer 5

Live salamanders or live minnows would work on all those. Use smaller baits for carp , trout and sunfish, and larger baits for bass and large trout

Answer 6

Kevin my brother I suggest you go down to the local library and check out as many books on fishin that you can then aplly some of the techniques to your body of water, go to the baitshop and talk to fishermen, they love to teach As the old sayin goes "give a man afish he eats for a day teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime' look listen learn good luck from Texas

Answer 7

corn! for carp. It's awesome. i catch a lot of carp with carp in a small river. nightcrawlers and leaches work ok. i also use shrip for catfish and every now and then catch blue gills and trout on it.

Answer 8

On all these you can't go wrong with worms...Also any grub or maybe even small insects....If you want to go for artificial..Powerbait is a good bet..Just find the color they are going for...

Have a good one
Steve