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Fishing BaitIf you want to catch a fish, you will need to bait your hook. Fishing bait comes in all types. There's live bait fishing bait and there is non living fishing bait. Further the main thing about fishing bait is that it has to be attractive to the fish you are hoping to catch. We have all dug worms to use as fishing bait. Who hasn't, as a kid, dug in the soft dirt and pulled up a big juicy worms and dreamed of the great big fish we were going to catch with that fishing bait? I myself spent many hours in total, digging up worms and putting them in old coffee cans to take down to the river and use as fishing bait. For some of these worms we were using as fishing bait were bigger than the fish we ended up catching, but I guess the local fish like our worms because we usually got something with our fishing bait, although some days all we really did was drown worms as they say. The other fishing bait we used a lot was salmon eggs. We usually bought these and small jars from the local store near the river. They were oily and red or orange and popped when we pierced them with a hook. I guess it worked pretty well but who really knows? As fishing bait they certainly were more pleasant to put on the hook than those poor squirmy worms the oozed goop when you pierce them with a hook a few times. I always felt bad for them and then to get thrown in some mucky river just seemed like adding insult to injury. But oh well, I guess that was just the life of fishing bait. Some kids bought live crickets, but I was never much into them as fishing bait. I don't know how affective they were as fishing bait and I just didn't want to deal with a box full of bugs who all just wanted to get away every time you opened it for some more fishing bait. Of course, there was the other kind of fishing bait that you could always use as a kid. We used stale bread this fishing bait. We used hot dogs as fishing bait. Sometimes we used just about anything we could snitch of the fridge as fishing bait. As far as fishing bait goes, bread wasn't so bad. You had to perfect your skill at form a bread ball around the hook with this fishing bait so if you were using stale bread, you have to wet it a little, but not too much as then you just had a gloppy mess that wouldn't stay on the hooks and that was no kind of fishing bait. Of course your fishing bait dissolved and fell off your hook half the time on your first cast into the river anyway and you had to start all over again. That was why hot dog pieces were better fishing bait because they were easier to stick on the hook and they stayed on most of the time, although we usually put on pieces of hot dogs as fishing bait that were too large to fit into the mouth the many fish we were likely to come across. But oh well, at least we had fishing bait that we could eat when we got hungry, which we did often.
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