Bait question?

[Jonesyak]

I was making bait in LJ for the first time last week, and had very mixed results.

First attempt making bait yielded sardines, from 4 to 6''. These seemed to have worked best considering each I fly-lined got chased around by cudas, and one got bit by a yellow.


A little later in the day the dines seemed to have left and I made various size macs in several locations. From 6'' all the ways to big ass forearm size macs. These were the best swimming baits no matter how I hooker them, however I never got bit.


Towards noon, running out of bait I sent the rig all the way to the bottom in a couple of spots and came up with what I can only describe as bait size ocean white fish. I am pretty sure they were just little whitefish; these were the worst baits of all, at least for me.




What are your guys preferred bait fish? And is there any way to target one over another?