Favorite Bass Lures for year round

[niiickboy]

Hello, my birthday is coming up and i’m gonna get a good amount of lures/baits to add to my collection, any recommendations on what to get? Right now i only have roughly 10 lures in total (just the basics pretty much one type of each common lure), and about 10 bags of soft plastics... Also are ‘Yo-Zuri’ lures good for bass/ good for the price? I like how they look, but some people say for the price there’s better bass lures on the market 

[Glenn]

For year round?  Here are my picks:

 

 

[niiickboy]

@Glenn No way, a few weeks ago i watched your video on the trick worms and those subtle tricks helped me get a few good ones before 

[roadwarrior]

[Tatsu Dave]

Make sure to get some stickbaits, I like 5" mostly. Pick up some owner, gamma, or mustad swimbait hooks and a pack of small size owner screw locs. Some of the hooks come already equipped with the screwlocs and you can try them and see how they work for you. They will keep your senko style bait's straight and will hold up thru more hits. Work well for any plastics and are easy to fish, get a small hook hone and or sharpening file and keep hooks SHARP. Grubs, ribbon or sickle tail worms, crawfish imitator's, and creature baits all work in given conditions.  Good Fishing!

[Dens228]

Jigs........Arky and swim jigs paired with craw trailers and paddletails. 

 

[Ben77]

Manns baby 1 minus

Norman fatboy

Bandit 100

Kvd 1.5

Sexy dawg

Spook jr

Lc 1.5

Gunfish

Sammy

All great lures that perform!

And some Senkos!!!

 

 

 

[Catt]

Texas Rigged plastics & Jig-n-Craw ?

[roadwarrior]

4 minutes ago, Catt said:

Texas Rigged plastics & Jig-n-Craw ?

That just about says it all...

 

However, on the Tennessee River our little brown fish like the Rage Menace

and BPS Tender Tube spring, summer, fall and all winter long.

[Jig Man]

I use Zeros, jigs, and Ned rigs no matter what season and water temperature.

[Mobasser]

For year round? 4" T rig plastic worm

[niiickboy]

okay so for the most part everyone is saying senkos and swim jigs with crawls which is what i don’t have... as for senkos is the yamamotos worth the extra few bucks or would i be better off with just the  

Strike King Shim-E-Stick Soft Bait Lure and save a few bucks to buy more? Also what’s your favorite crawl and swim jig? i’m guessing the rage crawls? i see everyone use them for chatterbaits, swimjigs, jigs

33 minutes ago, Benithebass said:

Manns baby 1 minus

Norman fatboy

Bandit 100

Kvd 1.5

Sexy dawg

Spook jr

Lc 1.5

Gunfish

Sammy

All great lures that perform!

And some Senkos!!!

 

 

 

what color kvd 1.5 would you recommend for south florida with slightly to moderate stain waters? I was thinking the sexy shad would be good? Also i fish from shore so there’s a lot of drop offs and rocks that i get caught on the square bill ones should help with that?

anyone have tips on walking lures like the spook,frog, and popper, either i suck at it or i’m not using the right equipment lol, i tried doing it on braid with a MH 7’3 rod, but this was when i only had a spinning set up

[TriStateBassin106]

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[Ben77]

I would start off with sexy shad, black back chartreuse and bluegill colors those produced the most for me.

[scaleface]

It just depends on what you are fishing . What cover , what structure? It makes no difference time of year , water clarity , moon phase , wind speed , direction , cloudy , sunny , rainy .... If I'm fishing algae its going to be with the same lures . Brush piles  , laydowns , rip rap...  I pick lures depending on where I think bass will be found . I'm often wrong but its a place to  start . I can suggest   lures but they may not apply to where you fish .

[DitchPanda]

Spinnerbaits

Jigs- both swimming and flipping

Senkos

[niiickboy]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

It just depends on what you are fishing . What cover , what structure? It makes no difference time of year , water clarity , moon phase , wind speed , direction , cloudy , sunny , rainy .... If I'm fishing algae its going to be with the same lures . Brush piles  , laydowns , rip rap...  I pick lures depending on where I think bass will be found . I'm often wrong but its a place to  start . I can suggest   lures but they may not apply to where you fish .

not sure about the terminology but where i fish it’s like shallow for 3-4 feet and then it drops down and the bottom is rocky, there’s no vegetation except for the shoreline and that’s about it and the water is usually slightly to moderately stained, slightly windy usually or none at all, super sunny almost all the time unless it’s downright about to rain during rainy season lol, only cover the fishes have during the day is hiding along the drop offs i believe because there’s no lily pads or overhand trees 

[Spankey]

Rat-L-Traps for year round.  You only need three colors. 
 

Chrome w/black back

Chrome w/blue back

Gold w/black back

 

If you have a hard time finding Bill Lewis get some Cotton. By both brands. 

[niiickboy]

8 minutes ago, Spankey said:

Rat-L-Traps for year round.  You only need three colors. 
 

Chrome w/black back

Chrome w/blue back

Gold w/black back

 

If you have a hard time finding Bill Lewis get some Cotton. By both brands. 

i forgot about those, defiantly need one of those colors, i only have the blueberry perch one right now

Would y’all say texas rigged zoom lizards are as effective as a t rigged crawl? I have some lizards rn and i was gonna try that today since i don’t have any crawls yet 

[scaleface]

Sounds like 1/4 ounce Beetle dspin water to me . I use them .

[BassinCNY]

1 hour ago, niiickboy said:

i forgot about those, defiantly need one of those colors, i only have the blueberry perch one right now

Would y’all say texas rigged zoom lizards are as effective as a t rigged crawl? I have some lizards rn and i was gonna try that today since i don’t have any crawls yet 

Lizards work at least as good as craws in my neck of the woods. T-rigged, weightless or my favorite is split shot/mojo rigged.

[FryDog62]

Most universal, versatile to me is a 5 inch Senko on the 4/0 weighted hook below. Swim it, twitch it, skip, jerk, dead stick.  Works most anywhere and pretty weedless too. 
 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Owner_Weighted_Twistlock_Light_3pk/descpage-OWTL.html 

[niiickboy]

4 hours ago, BassinCNY said:

Lizards work at least as good as craws in my neck of the woods. T-rigged, weightless or my favorite is split shot/mojo rigged.

can you send me a picture of the split shot rig? i have split shot weights but i bought them thinking they were the same as the worm/bullet weights lol, also you don’t like using bullet weights on the t rigged lizards? also whenever i use weightless worms the legs and tail never moves ?

5 hours ago, scaleface said:

Sounds like 1/4 ounce Beetle dspin water to me . I use them .

i’ll try it, can’t hurt for a dollar a piece lol

[txchaser]

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, Keitech Swing Impact Fat in 3.8" on an Owner CPS Underspin. Weedless/snagless, it gets bit. Even big crappie will take a bite.

 

You can also use the Keitechs on the swimjigs others mentioned above, as well as on a t-rig, either swum or fished on the bottom. 

 

It's pretty much the senko of swimming presentations. 

 

I use bluegill flash more than shad colors or solid no-flake colors like green pumpkin, but that is probably habit more than precision around color/flake. It kind of looks like everything and nothing specific, unless you dip the tail and it takes on more of a bluegill look. 

 

 

[niiickboy]

6 minutes ago, txchaser said:

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, Keitech Swing Impact Fat in 3.8" on an Owner CPS Underspin. Weedless/snagless, it gets bit. Even big crappie will take a bite.

 

You can also use the Keitechs on the swimjigs others mentioned above, as well as on a t-rig, either swum or fished on the bottom. 

 

It's pretty much the senko of swimming presentations. 

 

I use bluegill flash more than shad colors or solid no-flake colors like green pumpkin, but that is probably habit more than precision around color/flake. It kind of looks like everything and nothing specific, unless you dip the tail and it takes on more of a bluegill look. 

 

 

looks like the bellow gills, but a swim bait version, the bubble trail probably makes it great