Bass are aggressive feeders, it is amazing what they will try to eat sometimes. Small Bluegill are excellent bait for them also.
Be sure to check your regulations. In some states it is illegal to use game fish as bait.
This is from our regulations here is SC: Only bream, excluding Redbreast, can be used:
- No game fish may be used as bait to catch fish recreationally except for bream (other than redbreast). Trout may be used as bait only on Lakes Hartwell, Russell, Thurmond, Tugaloo, Yonah, Stevens Creek Reservoir and the Savannah River. When using game fish as bait to catch fish recreationally they must be included in the daily creel limit.
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men