Bait is any appetizing substance used to attract prey when hunting or fishing, most commonly in the form of trapping, ambushing and angling.
A piece of cheese used as bait on a mousetrap
Live bait and fishing supply store
Rodent bait station, Chennai, India
Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including food, the fur trade, hunting, pest control, and wildlife management.
Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century.
Sketches of life in the Hudson's Bay Company territory, 1880
Size comparison between two common types of spring traps: rat trap (above), and the smaller mouse trap (below).
Trapped raccoon