Hey, gold fish make excellent bait. Just don't use those fancy gold fish, that ain't cool. Night crawlers are excellent bait also. I fished with a buddy and his son on lake Erie once. We went 7 miles out from Cleveland ohio. I thought he was nuts. 7 miles? Good grief that's out in the middle of no where, and you couldn't see land after 2 miles. It was a calm day with 1 to 3 foot swells. Ooh I got sick to. This is the only way I know how to describe it. When you put a drop of water on a flat surface it pulses or sort of moves up and down for a bit, now imagine waves on top of that. So now you are floating on a wavy pulsating bubble of water. I get queezy thinking about it. Any how, all we used were night crawlers. Of course they were Canadian Night Crawlers. I don't know why they were more special then our home grown worms?