Bait Types

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  Use shiny or colored lures, smaller live fish, crabs or worms. Anglers all have their favorite trusted fishing methods. Worms are the most popular choice. A study in Maine reveals the local baitworm industry was worth over $2 million in 1997.
  
  

Live Bait or Popular Lures

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  Live bait is a popular choice and keeps the float moving to attract the fish to your line. Pout, whiting and small eels are all known to work well, but using a shiny lure such as the rotating spinnerbait or the buzzbait with its propeller-type blades to churn the water can attract bass to your line.
  
  

Shiny Objects

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  Bass are attracted to shiny objects so your lure needs to attract them. The variety is almost endless and GoFishing.co.uk suggests that the best advice, whether lake, river or sea fishing is to regularly update your bait or lure and to keep changing your fishing position to outsmart the fish.