The police waited for the bank robbers to 'take the bait'. [=to be tricked into doing the thing that would cause them to be trapped or caught]
('chiefly Brit') The interviewer kept asking the politician whether he was lying, and he 'rose to the bait' by getting angry.
She 'baited' the mousetraps with pieces of cheese. = She used cheese to 'bait' the traps.
(..) So, what do we do with the shark? Get someone with a truck to cart it back to the dock. I'm sure some of the fishermen will chop it up and use it for bait. - You got it. - Cool. Do you know where I can find Ben Carpenter? - Yes, he's over there. (..)2002 Shark Attack 3: Megalodon