Lures for beginners

[Armando Parente]

What's up everyone. I started my 9 year old daughter on a spinning reel earlier this year. Right now shes using an ultra light rod and reel for nightcrawlers. She got a rather larger spinning set up for her birthday. It's a 6'6 medium with up to 10lb test. My question is what would any of you recommend for line and lures for that set up.  She has some soft plastic worms and lizards but was wondering what would be a good starting point for her to learn technique and hook sets. 

 

Thanks for your input :)

[WRB]

Can you share what the larger spinning set up is? Make and model numbers for example.

Tom

[a1712]

1/4 oz. Spinnerbait, just chuck and reel, keeps them interested with constantly doing something. My Girls could not tolerate sitting and waiting for something to happen. But put on a Spinnerbait and let them cast and reel, they would fish for hours. Also a single hook bait, hate to see Kids with treble hooks to deal with. Brian. 

[Russ E]

Last year I converted a crappie fisherman to bass fishing. Gave him a Ned Rig and told him to cast it out and slowly reel it in. he caught several bass the first time out and now he is hooked.

[AO2point4]

A 1/2oz Johnson Silver Minnow with a 3 inch grub on the hook.  It is completely weedless, and it pretty much a chuck and wind technique. A #3 or #4 Mepps Aglia would be perfect also, if weeds aren't an issue.

 

Also get her a 75 sized Whopper Plopper.  Agai, chuck and wind technique but the visual strike will be enough to get any younger angler hooked for life.

 

For line, 8lb mono is what i grew up with and it never let me down, but braid may be an upgrade.

[813basstard]

There’s this thing called a senko. Bass seem to like them..

[Happybeerbuzz]

A good 8-10 mono like Seige or Super Natural would be my choice of line.  For lures, a whopper plopped, lipless crank, a square bill, and some small swim baits on jig heads would fill out a Plano box nicely for her.  All she has to do is throw them out and reel them in.

[burrows]

My 9 year old daughter fishes with my spinning set up it’s a 7 medium fast kinda big but she catches them on squarebills that’s all she throws. ? 

[Lead Head]

I would recommend small spinnerbaits and beetle spins for moving baits. Ned rig, weightless senko (or your preferred knock off) and lightly weighted baby brush hogs for plastics. You might want to start her off keeping these moving to avoid gut hooked fish if your not eating them. Like mentioned earlier i would avoid trebbles as much as possible. Maybe only let her throw them when you can closely supervise. When that's the case the baits mentioned above are solid choices, especially square bills and whopper ploppers. 

[WRB]

Sounds like your daughter knows what she likes and catches bass, why change?

Surface lures are exciting like the new 75 size Whopper Plopper is a cast and retrieve lure and any 1/4 to 3/8 oz spinninerbait would work.

Underwater soft plastics I taught my kids with a slip shot rig; 1/8 oz mojo weight, Carolina Keeper and #5133 size 1/0 hook with 4 1/2" to 6" curl tail Roboworms in oxblood/red flake. Place the keeper about 24" above the hook.

Cast out and slowly drag back, boring for kids but catches a lot of bass as long as dad is doing the same thing.

Tom

[CroakHunter]

I have a ten year old daughter and I like to let her use whatever she chooses out of my box until she doesn't catch any or asks me what she should throw. For moving baits I like swimbaits, grubs, and spinnerbaits. For slow moving baits I like something with a lot of action (pit boss, rage tail craw, etc) that way if she is working it too fast you get the good swimming action, and it's hard to work a soft plastic too slow. Win, win in my opinion. Also we never leave to go fishing without a piece of bread or two In case the bass aren't biting we can go for catfish or bluegill. 

[Koz]

22 hours ago, a1712 said:

1/4 oz. Spinnerbait, just chuck and reel, keeps them interested with constantly doing something. My Girls could not tolerate sitting and waiting for something to happen. But put on a Spinnerbait and let them cast and reel, they would fish for hours. Also a single hook bait, hate to see Kids with treble hooks to deal with. Brian. 

 

I agree, but I would also add a small paddletail trailer like a Keitech.

[Mikeltee]

If you are fishing the neighborhood pond like I am with my 6yo you want something weedless. She absolutely hates taking salad off the line after every cast. Texas rig FTW! I deadstick a weighted worm on a bobber for her and she watches that while catching bluegill constantly on the ultralight.

[papajoe222]

I take youngsters fishing on a regular basis. Some have more experience than others but they all like fishing with one of three baits; Crawlers, Senko type stick worms and RoadRunners. All can be fished with 8lb. test on med. light to med. rods and will catch everything from crappie to pike. 

 

[Moto]

This may sound weird, but if you wacky rig or Texas rig chicken feet, bass love em. It’s my go-to bait. Chicken feet is also one of the best lures for beginners - and it’s also used in tournaments worldwide - rig up chicken feet and see for yourself!

[roadwarrior]

 

[thinkingredneck]

I started my kids on bobber and worms for gills.  Then moved to spoons and in line spinners.  Then fly .  Now plastic worms.

[Black Hawk Basser]

My kid is a pretty good stick with a Senko.  He naturally just gingerly reels it in, and it works for him!  I use a 2/0 Trokar hook, that seems to help him set hooks without too much effort.