What's your live bait?

[FishADK]

What live bait do you use for your fish? (shiner, herring, fathead, suckers, wax worm, meal worm, mousie, spikes, crawlers, trout worms)
I use under tip ups
fatheads - perch crappie trout
shiners- bass and pike
herring for large trout and bass
trout worms - trout
Jigging
meal worm for bass
spikes for bass

[rink 610]

I was using medium roaches for bass and pike, but now I catch a bunch of 2 to 3in bluegill. The fish love 'em and they're free.

[Pickeralpicker91]

If I was made of money I'd buy the biggest sucker they had every time but unfortunately I end up buying two dozen fatheads for tipping jigs and perch tip ups while I use small perch and gills for the bigger stuff.

[FishADK]

I'm luck there is a local pond that has shiner, fatheads, and small perch. Free bait! Some huge slime darts in there two.

[pastaboy]

Red stick, looks like a flare with a fuse.... oh, I'm sorry, you said "Live" bait... Red or white spikes for gills, minnows for perch and wigglers for crappie.

[Smax]

Red stick, looks like a flare with a fuse.... oh, I'm sorry, you said "Live" bait... Red or white spikes for gills, minnows for perch and wigglers for crappie.

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[whopper1]

lg suckers - pike, med suckers - lakers

[matzilla]

Jigging: butter worms (aka honey worms) for everything. They tend to survive better than waxies and fish love the fat ol' things

[kingcoho308]

lg suckers for pike

[Carl.j.o]

River shiners for pike,bass,etc.
Wax worms for gills, crappie, perch
Spikes for gills, crappie, perch every once and a while
Fatheads or rosies for crappie and perch

[Fishingjg]

Large shiners or pike shiners, for tipups. That's what the call theme down here. Usually something around 3 or 4" long, other wise the start to get expensive.

[eyestrainer]

Shiners and creek chubs

[Baberuth]

Is there a difference in shiners mentioned? I do much better with golden shiners. They are much fatter and the real large ones are the best (10"). Setting the flag so it won't be a false alarm is a must.
Fat heads for perch.

[Tug08]

I have a small beaver pond across from my house and it has shiners, red belly dace, mummy chubs.  I keep my bait in a pail in the stream that comes out of the pond, it stays open and keeps the bait perfect.

[iceman260]

Mousies for perch and gills, fatheads for walleyes.

[Brendog9]

When I'm in New Hampshire, smelt and then tip-up suckers.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island, I like medium and large shiners.

My preferred method is jigging though. Nothing better to me.