4 Lures Only!

[The Young Gun]

So your buddy and you have to take just a basic 3700 tackle box each to an lake of another buddies choice. You can ony take 4 lures and two poles/reels. What would you take exactly?

[slonezp]

This is on my home water only. PB&J Buckeye mop jig, Northstar Bull Gill swimjig, junebug Senko, white Chatterbait

[LgMouthGambler]

A jig, Gambler EZ swimmers, Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed worm, and BPS Humpin Toad. Chronarch 50E with 50# Power Pro, on a Compre MH. Chronarch 200E7 with 15# YoZuri.

[Quitlimpin]

Fat Ika, Outcast RT jig w/paca craw, baby 1-, and 7" power worm

[flyfisher]

Fluke

Square bill crank

Yum DInger

Jig

Colors and sizes will change depending on season as will rigging options for the plastics.

I would go with a 7'mXF spinning rod with 20lb braid and a 7'mhF casting rod with 40lb braid

[Deleted account]

So your buddy and you have to take just a basic 3700 tackle box each to an lake of another buddies choice. You can ony take 4 lures and two poles/reels. What would you take exactly?

Do I know anything about the lake and/or time of year?, hell 4 lures fit in a 3600.

[fowlskies]

I would say:

Jig (color depending on clarity of water)

Sebile Magic Swimmer (Bluegill pattern)

Senko style worm

Spinnerbait (most likely white/chartruse unless really dirty water)

And if I could sneak a 5th without anyone seeing it would be a chatterbait.

[Sam]

Young Gun, your question is a simple one. The answers will be all over the board.

There are six seasons for bass fishing. Each season has attractive baits based on water temperature, color, current and bass biology.

If you take the six seasons and ask which baits are favored in each of the six I am sure you will receive a better response.

Of course, water clarity, water temperature, moon phases, forage in the body of water, structure, cover, current, wind, cloudy or bluebird skies and techniques can have a cumulative impact on the baits selected for each of the six seasons.

I always have a jig and pig, a crankbait along with plastics ready to roll. The trick is to know which baits and colors will work under what conditions and with what techniques.

Confidence. You take the baits you have confidence although they mean nothing to the bass. It is how you fish them that makes the difference.

[Arv]

LURES

1, Senko style worm

2, 1/2oz Flip n' Swim Jig

3, Rage Craw

4, Toss up between a trick worm for shakey heads and a spinnerbait for me, depends on time of year, cover, etc.

Color will depend on water clarity, etc.

RODS/REELS

1 spinning set up - 6'6 M/F rod with light fluorocarbon

1 casting set up - 7' MH/F rod with braid or fluorocarbon - depends on cover, water clarity, etc.

[11justin22]

1. Texas rigged baby brush hog

2. Finesse/spider jig with tiny paca craw as trailer

3. Senko

4. Crankbait

1. 7'mh 15 flouro baitcaster

2. 6'6" m 12 flouro baitcaster

[Gangley]

1) Skirted Jig with craw trailer (Northstar and Netbait)

2) Ol Monster Worm (ZOOM)

3) Popper (Yellow Magic)

4) Spinnerbait (Northstar)

A medium/heavy rod and a heavy rod

[retiredbosn]

1. Spinnerbait assassin pro clacker white chartreuse fluke trailer white ice

2. Zoom trick worm watermelon red

3. Jig with rage trailer (green pumpkin or black blue)

4. Jerkbait or crankbait

You did not limit terminal tackle, I would have shakey heads and drop shot + t rig stuff. I now can remove the fluke trailer drop shot it, cut the worm for shakey heads, or drop shot the trick worm, u can even put the rage craw on the right shakey head and it'll stay in the defensive position, can t-rig the craw or put enough weight on it to punch. You can limit lures and with the right terminal tackle still have an arsenal of ways to fish.

Rods 7' MHF casting with BPS Pro Qualifier

7 MF spinning with Quantum 20 Catalyst

[tstone]

Xcalibur square bill

Bitters naked swimmer

gambler cane toad

punching setup with RI sweet beaver

[5fishlimit]

Black/blue Chatterbait, 1/2oz.

Chrome/blue rat-l-trap, 1/2oz

Football jig w/craw trailer, any size.

War Eagle Screaming Eagle spinner, 1/2oz in bubblegum.

[CPBassFishing]

This article might help. http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/one-lure.html

[SudburyBasser]

Hmmm, probably a shallow water crank bait, Senko worms, some kind of jig and a top water, either something like a Zara Spook or spinner bait.

Kind of hard to answer without knowing what time of the year and day.

As for type of rods...probably a crankbait rod and a worm/jig rod.

[matt996]

1. Drop shot

2. Texas rig- Black and blue chigger craw

3. jig Macs Tackle RJ!!

4. Shallow crank 4-6 Square Bill in a shad color

Rods

1. Spinning rod 6 foot 10 inches med action. 10 lb braid 6 foot 6lb fc leader

2. Casting rod 7 foot med heavy action 15 lb fc

[SirSnookalot]

4 ?...........I don't use that many now. I carry a pack of flukes and a couple of extra hooks inside the pouch, and a beat up xrap. Med spin rod with 15# braid, pflueger supreme 35.

Inshore fishing I carry a bucktail, spoon, hard jerkbait and DOA flukes, covers the bases pretty well. Usually 4000 reel on a 10/20 rod with 20# braid.

[A-Jay]

1). 3/8oz T-rigged Jig

2). 1/2oz T-rigged Jig

3). 3/4oz T-rigged Jig

4). 1oz T-rigged Jig

And by simply changing the weight I have all four baits from this one rig.

A-Jay

[Hanover_Yakker]

That's an easy one for me, because I typically only take 2-3 presentations anyway fishing from a kayak. My choices would be:

1. 5" soft plastics with 1/8 and 1/4 oz draggin heads.

2. Skirted Jigs - football and swim heads in black/blue, green/blue and brown/orange. I can use the 5" soft plastic as a trailer and trim as needed.

3. Lipless cranks - shad, blugill, perch and red craw colors

4. Stanley Ribbits - black, watermelon pearl, brown/orange

For rods, I would carry both my Shimano Clarus 6'6" MH F casting rod paired with my Revo Inshore - spooled with 30 lb. braid and a 15lb. flouro leader, and the other would be my Shimano Clarus 7'2" MXF spinning rod paired with my Stradic 3000FJ spooled with 30lb. braid and a 15lb flouro leader.

These two rods are almost always with me (plus my 6'8" MXF AVID and Revo S but you said only two), so these two allow me to cover every presentation that i prefer, since a kayak affords me the opportunity to get into some pretty nasty cover and still get on fish without carrying extra heavy gear. To be perfecftly honest, this is actually my typical approach when I fish Sandy River here in VA and one I have had tremendous amounts of success on.

[VinnieT]

Lures/Baits

1. 6" watermelon senko texas rigged

2. Jig

3. Bomber "Square A" crankbait

4. Berkley 7" power worm "tequila sunrise"

Rods/Reels

1. MH medium action rod with Revo s

2. M fast action rod with Lews Speed Spool

[Missouribassman95]

1. Storm Wildeye Swim Shad

2. Zoom plastic worm

3. Lipless crank

4. X- Rap

[The Young Gun]

I see most people have either flukes or an jig.. Both are pretty versatile baits.. Both of which I haven't used much in my time of fishing.. I'm surprised no one said any buzzbaits, or an go to spinnerbait

[Bluebasser86]

1. Jig, black and blue or PB&J depending on water clarity

2. 1/8oz shakyhead with a GP trick worm

3. LC 1.5 Chart/black back or chartruese shad depending on water clarity

4. Tandem 3/8oz chart/white spinnerbait

If I can't catch fish on one of those baits I'm probably not going to be able to catch them.

[tnbassfisher]

Rat-L-Trap or another lipless crank

7" Power Worm

Jig

Hard Jerkbait