I've heard of chumming with it, but never using it as bait. When I was 5 or 6 years old, I used to fish a small pond on the back of my grandparents property, there was a creek that ran through the pond and eventually into the Saugeen River. This pond was full of brook trout and the occasional brown. I used to catch lots of trout, and of course chub too, using a piece of bacon or hotdog on a hook.