Cheap Effective Lures

[Basslover730]

I'm just trying to find more cheap lures that work great! This is for all the broke guys like me trying to be the next pro!

[roadwarrior]

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Buy fewer, better quality lures.

Over time you will keep fishing quality equipment for years, maybe

decades.

[Crookedneck]

$1 spinner baits at Wally world

[kickerfish1]

Big bite and Berkeley havoc are two brands of soft plastics I would consider to be cheap and effective. Most are under $3.00 a package.

[ww2farmer]

I don't know what your deffinition of "cheap" is, but you will get alot of bang for your buck with Zoom softplastics, and Strike King crankbaits.

[Basslover730]

Thanks, I have alot of the 1$ spinners from walmart, and i use zoom plastics when i can afford them, and i rarely buy rapalas and stuff like that.

[Ima Bass Ninja]

Check out academy's H2O line of baits. Good looking and good producing baits at 1/2 the cost of major manufactures. It's the only lure that I will by at full retail anymore.

[Bluebasser86]

A $15 Lucky Craft that can last your lifetime is a lot cheaper in the long run than buying bags of cheap plastics. I'm with RW on this one, I'd rather have a small selection of quality baits in proven colors than a bunch of cheap baits. Not that cheaper baits don't work, Strike King, Norman's, and Bandit's are all cheaper baits that will always have a place in my box.

[5fishlimit]

Watch for sales and clearance items.

Like others have said quality is better than quantity.

[Baddy]

I like rebel for top water, the pop-r and frog are my go to baits.

[wnybassman]

All you guys that recommend expensive lures "that will outlast" cheaper baits and thus be cheaper in the long run, must not have too many toothy critters in your waters?   lol     Not terribly uncommon around here to be bit off a half dozen times in a days outing.   That hurts even with cheap stuff!

[SudburyBasser]

If you have that many toothy critters in your neck of the woods you should be using metal leaders.

[Shane J]

Cheap is a relative term, but I'd much rather spend a buck or 2 more for a bag of plastics than have a higher quantity of inferior baits that don't do the job as well. I'm out there to catch fish, not to collect a bunch of crap.

[Basslover730]

I catch quite a few pickerel around here, actually some pretty nice ones, and i never use leaders, and rarely loose bait to fish, every time i get and expensive lure it gets lost withing a month or so, due to a fray in the line, a big fish,stupidity or an obstacle underwater, in some cases expensive lures out preform for me but usually whatever i can find cheap works well, I like to experiment, and when i find some thing that works better for a buck or two more i get it, but if the all work the same i get whatever cheapest.

[ww2farmer]

If you have that many toothy critters in your neck of the woods you should be using metal leaders.

 

 

No...........we actually want to catch fish.

[Jig Meister]

Pop-R is probably the only really cheap lure that works for me on a reg. basis.

[kickerfish1]

Also keep an eye out in the flea market here. You can find anglers looking to move bags of plastics or hardbaits sold in groupings. Often times many of these are unused. The actual cost per package or bait can often work out to less than a dollar or two a bait/package.

[SudburyBasser]

No...........we actually want to catch fish.

Well people can't have it both ways.

 

Besides, I am somehow able to catch plenty of bass when I'm on a lake where leaders aren't ill-advised and I use them..

[ww2farmer]

Well people can't have it both ways.

 

Besides, I am somehow able to catch plenty of bass when I'm on a lake where leaders aren't ill-advised and I use them..

 

I don't want it both ways, I'll gladly...........well not gladly, but am willing to lose all the $5-$10 baits I do to catch the fish I catch.Since I started using fluoro leaders tied to braid, insted of straight braid the bleeding has stopped a little, but not enough to jump into the pool of donating $15-$30 baits, besides, it's hard to argue with the results I have with the less expensive stuff. I am 100% confident they way I fish, a steel leader would be at the best a hindrance, and at the worst cost me bites. My time on the water is too valuable to me to spend it unproductivly.

[flippin and pitchin]

Do you mean value based baits ? There's nothing cheap about the following products. They are priced so as to be an excellent value and very affordable.

Havoc

Zoom

Big Bite

Robo Worm

Rage

Luhr Jensen

Normans

Strike King

Bandit

Rebel

North Star

Seiberts

War Eagle

Peppers

and the list goes on and on.

[bassh8er]

For soft plastics, I think that Zoom provides good quality and quantity for a reasonable price, same with Bass Pro brand.

For hard baits, I think that Bass Pro, Strike King and Bandit won't break the bank.

I have some more "expensive" lures as well. Rage Tail, Lucky Craft, Yamamoto, Megabass, Spro, etc... Some people swear by them and some people swear at them, and I'm 50/50.

When it comes right down to it, I feel very confident that I could get by with a pack of black Zoom Trick Worms and a bluegill colored Strike King KVD 1.5 on 90% of my fishing trips.

One helpful hint is to buy 2-3 colors of baits instead of everything in the lineup. Zoom makes lots of colors and you can quickly empty your wallet and room in your tackle bag if you buy all 50 some colors they offer for the Trick Worm. I make it a point to buy black and green pumpkin for most of the plastics I buy and shad based colors for Jerkbaits or baitfish imitators. These are the colors I have the most confidence in and what I would throw anyways, even if I had methiolate, bubblegum and junebug on board.

Good luck!

[Matthew Veillion]

Big bite baits yo mamas are really good flipping baits

[matt996]

Save up the money and buy less but get LC and GYCB well worth the money!

[ww2farmer]

One helpful hint is to buy 2-3 colors of baits instead of everything in the lineup. !

 

Thats my philosophy too, with plastics you can't go wrong anytime, anywhere there are bass swimming in the water with a shade of green(watermelon, greenpumpkin, etc...) and a dark color like black/blue, black/red, or junebug. For cranks, all you really need is bluegill/sunfish looking bait, a shad imitation, and a craw type color.

[*Hootie]

A $15.00 lures can last a lifetime. I know because I have a few living on the bottom of the lake I fish. That's why I decided, if I am going to build an underwater fishin lure community, I will do it with $3.00 lures. I also find I catch just as many bass on my $3.99 BPS Lazer eye spinnerbaits as I did on my $7.49 Strike King spinnerbaits. How much of it is necessity, and how much is just, "look at me"........

Hootie