buy my own

oar or paddle

Oar

For trout...wax or meal worms?

both work good.

when using a minnow, bobber or no bobber

Too many variables to give a definite answer....Species pursued, water depth, stream or lake, etc...

GENERALLY, in shallow, non-moving water such as a lake or pond, I'd prefer a bobber...

In deeper water( below 8-10 feet) or in faster moving streams, I'd prefer NOT to use a bobber..

However I can think of several exceptions to both rules...

Bait fishing for stream trout....Worms or minnows..??...

minnows

brown trout or rainbow

rainbow

nightcrawlers or garden worms?

Red Worms.
I use to catch my own night crawlers.That is almost as much fun as fishing itself. We raise rabbits so we have the red worms..I like them better and so do our panfish.

Brown trout....


Night crawlers........


I've caught plenty of smaller browns on minnows and redworms, but I've never caught BIG brown trout in numbers until I learned how to properly fish crawlers....

For walleyes in rivers....Jig/minnow or stickbait..??..

im not gunna answer it since i dont know ill let some1 else.

black crappie or white

For walleye in a river if im in a boat, jig and minnow, if im off shore or hip-waders ill be using a stick-bait

As for black or white crappies ill go Black.

Paddlefish or Sturgeon