Oddly he refused to be baited - Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

They had arrived at the baited spot - Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

Several of these fish they caught using large hooks fastened to chains and sometimes baited merely with a piece of colored cloth - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) by Washington Irving