From Fishing Words
Natural attractant added to a hook to catch fish. Bait includes live and dead baitfish, crabs, crayfish, worms, eels, insects, mussels, clams, cut bait (fish), chicken livers, corn kernels, dough balls, squid, and shrimp.
They're a number of kinds of bait when fishing saltwater.
- The largest is troll bait (whole fish)
- chunk bait(cut up chunks of fish)
- live hook bait (bait for common single hook outfits)
- chum bait(chum).