save them for the large mouth bass....you can buy that ground up newspaper bedding at walmart (or you used to anyways) and soak it up and then fill an old small beer cooler with it and they'll live in there for a month if you let air in occasionally or drill some breather holes in the top
i've caught more trout on a tiny piece of night crawler worm on a very small hook laying on the bottom than using a whole one
i found this out one day....out in the boat by accident
i had a rod sitting on the edge of the boat with say maybe 3 or four feet of line hanging over the edge.... with a relatively small hook
and a left over piece of worm on it...ok... (wasn't fishing it)
and a 20" brown came up and grabbed it away from all the perch that were trying to eat it... and nearly yanked the rod in the water
after that i went HMMMM and down sized to small pieces
and started to nail them left and right.
i always have trout in my freezer...and i always take both power bait
and worms but usually the gray garden variety because they are smaller and the trout are less intimidated by them compared to the larger night crawlers size... i use power bait as a garnish and as an
attractant for them to find my worm by either scent or color....
and the locals always tell me what the
color of the day is for
power bait...i smear it on flies and add it to trebles to add scent because the liquid attractants sometimes melt the foil finishes
but heres the mini lures /plugs i always take with me in the order of preference...some will cast with ultra light set ups and the rest i troll with very effectively...
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