Trout Fishing With Berkley Power Bait

There are many varieties of Berkley Power Bait.  Each type has it's own benefits and rig requirements.  In order for you to use this bait successfully to catch trout, I suggest that you follow these easy guidelines.

Trout Bait/Power Bait/Gulp

Berkley bait comes in several different colors, scents, and forms.  In its dough form, it is best fished formed into a small ball around a treble hook. The treble hook allows the dough bait to retain its shape.  Use the smallest treble hook suitable for the target of your fishing adventure. The Gulp nuggets work best fished on a small single size 8 hook or a salmon egg hook.

Rig your line with a slip sinker above a swivel then attach a leader to the swivel.  Your leader length will vary by the depth and current that you're fishing in but generally for most streams I find that about 16 inches works well. Berkley Power Bait is a floating bait so using a slip sinker allows your bait to float naturally to the surface or near-surface.  Or, in the case of lake fishing, a slip sinker allows your bait to float above the structure on the bottom of the lake.

Berkley Trout Bait also works well to catch bass, crappie, bluegill, and even catfish.  Although, catfish do prefer the garlic scented doughs.  Speaking of the garlic scented doughs...use these for trout when fishing streams muddied by recent rain.  You'll have more hook-ups because the trout will still find your bait even though they may not be able to see it clearly.

I've been using Berkley's Rainbow Glitter Trout Power Bait for over 20 years now and I've never had a bad day trout fishing.  This is one that you'll want to keep in your tackle box - in original scent and garlic scent.  There are MANY different colors and scent combos of Berkley Power Bait.  I have most of them in my tackle box.  They all work well in their optimum conditions - water color, temperature, stream size, trout type, time of year - these all play a part in which color/scent will work the best.  Until you get to know "what works best when" my advice is to try a few casts of each.  I've fished many a trout stream and had a "good" fishing day, but then changed my color/scent choice and turned it into a "great" fishing day! 

Good luck and happy fishing! JD