Some people equate live bait with cheating. I use live rigged shad sometimes and man the bass nail them. Some of the trophy hunters use live crawdads and sit and watch the line all day for a couple of big bass bites. Pretty slow!

I find six inch suckers work well also. They tend to be of good size when they hit.

Screw the people who say it's cheating. They probably work for a manufacturer of imitation lures. The best small mouth fishing I ever done was with night crawlers, and I wanted to catch other fish!

I have live bait fished for Bass before and had great success, it's a very popular practice in Florida lakes.

I normally use artificial lures for Bass, but when crappie fishing with live bait, I will catch bass as well.

i havent done well with nightcrawlers for bass i do however like to use live shad or big 10" golden shiners free-lined that can be some real fun until you get 2 good fish and the rods are at opposite ends

Sometimes i do, but not as much as I'd like to. If I have a wasp nest at my house, I spray the adulys. I collect them(with gloves) and take the nest. The dead adults work great on small hooks. They float and if you just twitch em the bass will tear em up. Then pull the caps off the nest and when you find an adult about to hatch, hook him and throw him out. The spay didnt hit the inside, and they doo all the work. They buzz and swim all over the place and it works like a magnet for big bass. Sounds dangerous but its not if your careful.