How To Catch Trout - The Most Effective Way of Rigging a Worm for Trout Fishing

If you want to know how to catch trout there is one bait that should be used above all others in my humble opinion and that bait is a live worm. The most popular types of live worms are night crawlers and red worms (for anyone who doesn't know a red worm is it is basically a small night crawler). My fishing mentor taught me how to catch trout while using live worms as bait more than twenty five years ago and the principles and techniques that he instilled in me have stuck with me to this very day.

There are two important points to consider when using live worms as bait to catch trout and those things are the way in which you go about rigging a worm for trout fishing and the type of water that you fish in. Let's begin with the type of water that you fish in.

When using live worms for trout fishing you want to be fishing in the flowing water of a river or stream. The fishing technique itself is called "drift fishing" and in involves drifting a live worm with the current of the river or stream that you are fishing. This technique is how I learned how to catch trout more than two decades ago and the technique that I continue to use to catch trout to this day. The goal of "drift fishing" with a worm is to have you worm bounce or roll along the bottom of the river or stream as it flows naturally with the current of the river or stream. Although difficult at first, once mastered this technique is a great way to learn how to catch trout.

The next thing to consider when trout fishing with a live worm is the way in which you go about rigging said worm as bait. Many novice or less experienced fishermen will attempt to thread their live worm onto a single hook when fishing, but this is a big mistake. First of all a single hook is no way to go about rigging a worm for fishing because in the "threading" of the worm the worm ends up looking anything but natural and second rigging a worm in this manner leaves a large portion of the worm without a hook in it, thus the trout can easily steal your bait. When rigging a worm for trout fishing you want to use a set of bait rigs, which is simply two small hooks tied in tandem which allow a live worm (or section of a live worm in the case of large worms) to be presented as bait in an outstretched and natural manner. This is the most effective way of rigging a worm for trout fishing.

Whether you are just learning how to catch trout or have been fishing for trout for many years these two factors should be kept in mind when using worms for trout fishing. As I said, these tips have been helping me catch trout for more than twenty years and I know they will do the same for you.