How To Catch Trout With A Worm

Using a worm as bait certainly couldn't be compared to learning quantum physics, but it isn't quite as simple as most anglers make it out to be either. Worms are a good bait to use while fishing and when a worm is coupled with a few other factors a simple "worm" can become a truly excellent fishing bait. Nowhere is this more true than when you talk about fishing for trout, a species of fish that I have been targeting for more than two decades, and in this article I will use the knowledge that I've gained over that time to teach you how to catch trout with a worm (which is the most effective trout bait in my opinion).

In my experience when it comes to catching trout with a worm the type of water that you fish in is of the utmost importance. Trout are found in both lakes and rivers and rivers are what you want to focus on when you are using a fishing worm in an attempt to catch trout. Not just rivers, but more to the point, small to medium sized rivers (the size rivers that can be "wade fished" effectively). When learning how to catch trout with worms, this is the type of water that you want to focus on.

Next is the technique that is employed. Just "threading" a worm onto a #4 hook and throwing it into the water is not the way to go about catching a trout with a worm. You need to have a more "measured" approach and that approach is known drift fishing. Drift fishing is usually thought of as a steel head fishing technique, but it also works very well when fishing for trout. After all a steel head is just a trout that "runs" to the ocean (or similarly large body of water) to feed before returning to spawn. In any case, if you want to know how to catch trout with a worm, drift fishing said worm is the technique that you want to employ.

By allowing the worm to "drift" naturally with the current of the river, the worms looks exactly like it would in nature which means that hungry trout will find the worm very difficult to resist. There are two keys to attempting to catch trout by fishing with worms in this manner. The first key is to rig your worm on a set of gang hooks so that the worm appears as natural as possible to the trout that you are attempting to catch and the second is to use something called a worm bag. By using a worm bag your live fishing worms are always within easy reach for baiting up and re-baiting which saves you a ton of valuable fishing time.

Follow these simple tips and you will experience much more success the next time that you head out in an attempt to catch trout and you will never again wonder how to catch trout with a worm, you will in fact know how.