What is the best bait for any fish?

Answer 1

well, if you are fishing in the Great Lakes or freshwater, then, night crawlers will get a bite from just about any fish, but leeches get small mouths, and maggots get sun fish, and gobys, and steelhead, crayfish get small mouth, and largemouth, and sometimes catfish, wax worms get about the same, and minnows get crappie, walleye, perch, and many more..... just keep fishing and you will see, try many things.

Answer 2

Worms or just regular fish bait from the fishing store! But if it's a larger fish your looking for, then you probably want a dead, smaller fish, like a sardine, or salmon eggs works for small and large fish.

Answer 3

The following is just my opinion and I'm not an expert by no stretch of the imagination, but this is what works best for me in the areas I fish the most:

The best way to find the best bait for whatever species your fishin' for is to find out what they're feeding on in that particular season or area. And the most accurate way to do that is when you clean them look in their stomach.

I have found that when nothing seems to be biting, regardless what I throw at 'em, something will always hit on live bait. Catfish love big fat juicy nightcrawlers, not the store bought kind either, the kind you dig yourself. Bass like them, too, but a nice shiny minnow will get their attention before a nightcrawler will. Bass love crawdads too, gotta be the right time of year tho, usually late spring, early summer, when their shells are soft, this is a good opportunity to fool 'em with an artificial lure. Catalpa worms and Cicadas work well, but it has to be the year for them, fish somehow know when its time and won't hit as quick as when their naturally available.

Another artificial bait I like is the 4 inch black rubber worm, have had really good luck with those. Caught my biggest bass ever (7 lbs) with one, floating the river around 1p.m on a very hot August day when nothing, not even perch, was biting. Hope I helped a little.