Anyone Want to Share Their "Secret Lures"?

[Goose52]

5" soft plastic grub - Zoom Fat Alberts or a Gander Mountain house-brand grub. I just checked my log and I've caught 330 bass on these so far this season.

Usually fished t-rigged and weightless on a 1/0 EWG; sometimes peg a 1/8oz weight to get it deeper, faster. Can also "swim" it on the retrieve. I've also used it as a topwater and got some nice action. Just today, I was using a Gander Mountain grub and the front end was torn up so I cut off the front of the grub and created a "popper" face - got a nice 16" / 2lb LMB to hit that. A great, versatile bait.

[bilgerat]

Brent's 4" Disc Tubes (any color really) weighted internally with a 1/8 oz drop shot weight - the skinny cylindrical ones. Rigged weedless on an EWG hook.

If I could only fish one rig the rest of my life, this is it.

[endless]

A bucket of Minnows and a dozen of Worms!!!! Haha!

Nah but really I just love my Xcalibur Xrk50 one knocker in blue chrome/orange. Nothing big yet but seems to be the working crank for me.

Anything wacky but I love my green pumpkin/watermelon laminate.

The Bandit seems to be a hot lure for most so I need to start tossing mine out.

[Gatorbassman]

Not so much a secret lure but a new finesse rig. A magnum finesse worm with a lead nail in the head, an O-ring an inch up and wacky rigged. Just let it sink to the bottom and shake. It's pretty cool.

[Ballpark Frank]

On the baitcast rig= Zoom Ol Monster Tequila Sunrise

On the flyrod= BIG Olive and Black Wooly Bugger with Yellow and Black Marabou Tail tied on a No.2 hook

[guitarkid]

rapala

zoom

fish stalker

Deep creek lures

Booyah

   -gk

[A-Jay]

The night operations this week have provided excellent topwater action.

Looking for something different and a bit bigger profile, I broke out The Jitter-stick.

A-Jay

[basscrusher]

Not much that hasn't been said already, but for a nasty WINTER bait...2.5 inch curly-tail panfish assassin, chartreuse pepper color, 1/8 oz jighead.  On many days the bass kill it before the perch can even sniff it. 

[Primus]

C Flash 44 Mag crankbait/ Bluegill  color

Bandit 700 series Chrome Bluegill color

Srike King Series 6XD Silent Sexy Ghost Minnow

Strike King Rodent- a nice rival to the R.I. Sweet Beaver has been putting nice fish in the boat, usually T-rig with 1/8, 3/16 or 1/4 oz sinker

1/2 OZ Hornet Jig with Lake Fork Magic Shad- I've thrown this rig in the past with a grub on the back , saw Roadwarrior's post a few months back about using the Magic Shad trailer. Recently wacked em' on a heavily pressured clear water lake on what started out as a slow day. Thanks Roadwarrior.

[mr.mallard]

zoom super fluke in pearl that ripped in a special way that when it pauses and falls it does a foward spiral. swim it up to the cover. pause it around the cover. fish it with braid weightless and a mono leader on a swivel on medium heavy spinning gear. 8-) 8-) 8-)

[indianguidenamedvinny]

what is so sercet about any of the lures you all talked about. you can buy all of them in a store throughout the us. Just my opinion.

[MALTESE FALCON]

Nothing secret here:

Original Shad Rap, in custom Gander Mountain color.

1/2 oz. double willowleaf spinnerbait in white, or translucent.

XCalibur Xr50 in Pearl Melon, or Blue Chrome/Orange.

Lucky Craft Rick Clunn Rattlin crankbait 1.5, in Ghost Minnow.

Falcon

[slonezp]

Senkos

Shhhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone

[bigfruits]

not really secrets but my favs this yr:

1/4oz bitsy bug (green craw/black)

3" craw papi, 3" paca craw , baby rage craw, zoom tiny chunk

small plastic swimbaits on 1/4oz yamamoto swimbait jigheads

zoom baby brush hog, 3/16oz worm weight, eagle claw bobber stop

[A-Jay]

what is so sercet about any of the lures you all talked about. you can buy all of them in a store throughout the us. Just my opinion.

I think there is a good chance that the members who listed baits in this thread realize that these are not "secret lures". We are just sharing info and having a little fun.

btw - welcome to BR.

A-Jay

[bear7625]

There's one bait that been kept secret for the last 50 years. It's a black ....................

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Zoom swamp crawler in Green Weenie. Nose hooked with a drop shot hook. Without the drop shot weight. It barely sinks, work it in and around sparse surface vegetation. Doesn't target the big fish, but it can put a limit in the boat fairly quickly in the right areas. The only drawback is that you can't cast it super far because it's just ridiculously light. I've got fly's that weight more.

Man I wish I could find those locally more often.  Love that worm.

[taptap]

Grandebass Rattlesnakes!  ;D

[5bass]

-Knuckle Down Lures Knuckle Dragger football jig with a Rage Craw trailer

-Rage Tail Thumper worm

-DD22, DT16, DT20, 6XD

[Big-O]

Remove the skirt from a jig and thread a Rage Shad on it with tail up making sure it's aligned straight on the hook so that it runs true. Jigs with trailer keepers and longer hooks like the Hack attack work well for me. You can also trim the sides of the shad off slightly and thin it down some for smaller profile. A 3/8 to 1/2 oz is my standard because I like the larger profile most of the time and fish it a little deeper, so I will often leave the body as is.

This bait makes a nice wobbling swim jig application and can be retrieved quick similar to a spinnerbait but it's shorter with total bait movement. I also use it at night in place of spinnerbaits. Doesn't tangle in the grass quite as bad and set the hook just like a jig fish.

Big O

www.ragetail.com

[Goose52]

what is so sercet about any of the lures you all talked about. you can buy all of them in a store throughout the us. Just my opinion.

Perhaps the secret is not the availability of the bait - but the effectiveness...that may have been overlooked by many anglers. Another "secret" might be that it's a bait that not many people throw in your area - thus showing the fish something that they don't get hit with all the time.

In my case - I mentioned a 5" grub, mostly fished t-rigged and weightless. Some may fish a grub occasionally on a jig-head, or as a trailer on another bait, but perhaps not many anglers use it as the primary bait as I do. Mostly weedless, a grub can be fished anywhere in the water-column, including topwater; enough bulk to attract larger bass, but small enough to a get bit by crappie, warmouth, even brim. If you're a multi-species angler, this is a great bait. I caught 20 bass this morning on this bait fished as a topwater - ranging up to 17". I'll be going out this evening, tossing a grub, to see if I can add to the score ...

[gar-tracker]

The night operations this week have provided excellent topwater action.

Looking for something different and a bit bigger profile, I broke out The Jitter-stick.

A-Jay

A-Jay I cant tell you how many big fish Iv caught on those.

[MichBassMan]

3/8 oz. spinner bait with the skirt taken off and replaced with a paca craw. Slide the craw all the way on until the spinner bait head is buried in the paca. I use megastrike for lube to aid in sliding the paca on.

[soccplayer07]

do you have a pic of that???

[A-Jay]

The night operations this week have provided excellent topwater action.

Looking for something different and a bit bigger profile, I broke out The Jitter-stick.

A-Jay

A-Jay I cant tell you how many big fish Iv caught on those.

Well, Looks like it not a "secret" any more . . .

8-)

A-Jay