Insect Baits

Some of the best insects to use as live bait for sunfish, pan fish, and trout are caterpillars, nymphs, crickets, grubs, ants, grasshoppers, and wax worms. Ants presented on a fly are especially enticing to brown trout, while larger trout and small mouths prefer larval or immature stoneflies, caddies, dobsonflies, mayflies, and hellgrammites.