New Person To Bass Fishing

[RyanFishing]

My uncle asked me to start him and help him learn how to bass fish. We live in Colorado and he has trout fished all his life but wanted to get started in bass fishing. He has a rod and reel but asked for 3-5 basic lures to use for all summe/year bass fishing. I'm having a hard time narrowing it down given I have so much equipment haha. What does everyone on here think would be best to start with? Thanks in advance!

[ABW]

Senkos. Start with these and expand from there.

[Senko lover]

Here's what I learned on. I used a spinning rod.

4-inch finesse worm, weightless with a 2/0 EWG.

Hula Popper

Lipless Crankbait

1/8 oz. spinnerbait.

 

Those'll cover the basics. Senkos are good as well.

[ibobpeb]

ABW is right. All you need are senkos to start off with. Since you asked for 5 this is what I would use:

 

 

1. senkos (wacky rigged and texas rigged) 

2. finesse worm (on shaky head jig)

3. floating hollow body frogs (pad crasher)

4. skirted jigs with a craw trailer (too many options. can't go wrong.)

5. 3" to 5" swimbaits on a weighted wide gap hook. (keitech impact fat on an eagle claw lazer weighted 60 degree hook)

[Matthew2000]

1. Senkos wacky rigged

2. Craw bait of some kind

3. Jig easy to use and catches fish.

4. Square bill can really be used anytime of the year.

5. Buzz bait, this will get him hooked from the top water bites.

[gunsndrums1]

Original floating rapala

Hula popper

Jitterbug

Any size spinnerbait

Any and all soft plastics that can be texas rigged with or without a weight

[sprint61]

Everyone has mentioned a ton of good lures! Make sure he learns the jig imo it is the best lure to catch fish year round on I would say a lot of people agree.

[kingmotorboat]

Everyone has mentioned a ton of good lures! Make sure he learns the jig imo it is the best lure to catch fish year round on I would say a lot of people agree.

Absolutely agree. Never fished a jig much til this weekend on Toledo bend. It was one of the only 2 producers for me and a learning experience. Now I see why people go crazy for it

[Heron]

Spinnerbait

 

That should translate well for a trout fisherman.

[sprint61]

Absolutely agree. Never fished a jig much til this weekend on Toledo bend. It was one of the only 2 producers for me and a learning experience. Now I see why people go crazy for it

It just works plain and simple I use it more than abything.

[MainelyBASS]

One thing to keep in mind is that you want to be able to fish all 5 lures on the same setup I would imagine? Unless your uncle plans on using a few different types of rod and reel combos. I imagine its a  6'-7' medium action setup so for that I would say that everyone has already hit on the good baits for that rod and reel. Square bills, Chatterbaits, Drop Shot, Spinnerbaits, Senkos, Jigs, Lipless Cranks.

[RyanFishing]

Thanks everyone!! And yeah he has a few different rods he could use that translate from trout fishing. Just 6'-7' medium rods and I'll definitely think about starting with a Senko. That was what I first started with then I'll add in some other baits as well. But thanks again!

[WRB]

Most trout anglers use med/light spinning tackle with 4 to 6 lb mono line. A 1/16 oz to 1/8 oz lure is appropriate.

Your uncle can go to a medium bass rod and use 8 lb mono, then more options are open, lures 1/8 to 3/8 oz will work.

The problem with soft plastics is learning to hook set for trout anglers use to using very small hooks, bass fishing uses larger hooks requiring a new hook setting technique.

The rigs that are most effective are; drop shot, split and slip shot. All these use soft plastic worms or creatures, including Senko's.

My suggestion is to start with the drop shot.

Tom

[RanndomUndead]

Seeing a lot of active baits being mentioned, so ill say the shadow in the room,

1/8th oz 6-7" green pumpkin Shakey Head, unsalted. Works like a charm for me year round when they just dont even want to bite water