Preserved Fishing Baits?

[Se Mn FishSlayer]

Can a guy use preserved nightcrawlers on trout streams that dont allow live bait?

[DARK30]

Don't know for sure but they do allow salted minnows on trout lakes I believe. Where do you find preserved night crawlers anyway?

Man that is one chunky rainbow! Did you release it?

[Se Mn FishSlayer]

I just picked some up at fleetfarm hope they work. About the rainbow yes i let it go it was during catch and release season but that dont matter i would of let it go anyway. If im gonna eat a trout its gonna be a brown or brookie. Rainbows just dont taste that good to me.

[mark p]

The special regulations that exist on some trout streams, do not say "no live bait". The regulations are written to say "artificial lures and flys only" so that would mean preserved baits are not allowed.

[DARK30]

Makes sense. The trout have a harder time swallowing a lure...and the poets don't have to walk around the bank fisherman

[Se Mn FishSlayer]

Makes sense. The trout have a harder time swallowing a lure...and the poets don't have to walk around the bank fisherman

You think trout have a harder time swallowing a small spinner or fly than a big nightcrawler? I dont believe that. And who are the "poets"

[DARK30]

I just think its funny... One guy wearing over $300 in clothing and using another $300 in gear walking the stream in (poetry mode). Another guy is sitting next to his y-stick drinking a beer and dunking worms (porno mode). Call it trout fisherman extremes and each one has good advise to the other on how exactly trout should be caught and handled....almost as finicky as the muskie guys. My personal idea of the best version of porno mode is slipping the net under ther fat belly of a mudeye at 12:30 am on a muggy night down in the bottoms.

I myself prefer artificial bait for trout... a single (not necessarily barbless) hook and a jig. Call it the gray area between poetry and porno. I do occasionally put on a shad rap but those trebles are tuff on trout if your just out for the fun of it. If you want to eat a few trout, the best way to get some fast is using worms...you will gut hook a few but thats ok, your eating them. A lot of old timers even use cut bait for trout.

[Se Mn FishSlayer]

Now I get who you're talking about when you say poets. Down here we call them catalog boys.