Small, soft-shell crayfish and fish eggs, usually from salmon, can also be productive when drifted in a similar fashion. Egg hooks should be used for salmon eggs. Insect larvae are productive at times, epecially while they are abundant in streams and are beginning to emerge. Most of the time they are fished like worms, but take care in casting because they come off the hook easily. Prepared trout bait ranges from commercial products to homemade concoctions.
Most varieties have a cheese base and come in small chunks or balls.
Cheese baits are usually cast across a pool and the bait allowed to drift with the current. Other popular baits include whole kernel corn, marshmallows, and cereal types. It doesn't take much imagination to fish for trout with these items, although all of them have enticed many trout to bite. Spinner-baits and leadheads are used most often. In this position the lure appears more natural, and it is easier for a trout to pursue and pick up.