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Bait and Tackle The following list will help you learn what kind of bait and tackle to use for different fish. Freshwater Fish Brook Trout Worms, cocktail shrimp, artificial flies and spinners. Brown Trout Dough, worms, spoons, spinners, minnow-imitating plugs and other natural baits. Cutthroat Trout Dough, worms, salmon roe, spoons, spinners and flies. Kokanee Salmon eggs, worms and flashy spinners. Rainbow Trout Worms, dough, salmon roe, cocktail shrimp, artificial lures, spoons, spinners and other natural baits. Warmwater Fish Bluegill Light tackle, small lures and natural baits (worms, etc.). Brown Bullhead Worms or cocktail shrimp. Channel Catfish Worms, liver, various smelly baits and lures. Crappie Worms, plastic tube jigs, fish-imitating lures and flies. Largemouth Bass Spoons, spinners, large flies, plastic worms, grubs and worms. Smallmouth Bass Artificial lures and flies, worms, crayfish and other natural baits. Walleye Worms, leeches, fish-imitating lures, plastic grubs, spinners. Yellow Perch Small lures and flies, worms, grubs, crickets and other natural baits. Anadromous Fish Chinook Plugs, spoons, anchovies, herring, spinners, spoons and salmon eggs. Coho Spoons, flies, herring, salmon roe, spoons and spinners. Shad Small bright metallic colored lures, shad darts, and small brightly colored beads with a bare hook. Sockeye Plugs, spoons, spinners, bare painted hooks and lures. Steelhead Salmon roe, shrimp, crayfish, worms, artificial spoons, spinners, jigs and flies. White Sturgeon Anchovies, herring, smelt and ghost shrimp. This information was taken from Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife’s “Freshwater Sport Fish Identification Guide” and “Anadromous Sport Fish Identification Guide” published by the Aquatic Education Program. For more information please contact WDFW at (360) 696-6211.