How many lures?

[Swamp Girl]

How many lures do you primarily use and what are they? If you want to explain why those are your primary lures, please feel free to share. So, are you a 52-lure Fred, diving deep into your tackle box each year, or are you a 7-lure Sally, using just a few confidence lures each year? I'm the latter. I use:

 

Whopper Plopper

Popper (I use many makers, but I don't care which one I use because they all work equally well.)

Mepps brass-bladed spinner

Senkos, mostly wacky

T-Rigged worms of various sizes and makes

Keitech paddletails on Owner underspins

Squarebills

 

Of course, I use others like frogs, flukes, jerkbaits, lipless crankbaits, jointed crankbaits, floating Rapalas, etc., but 90% of the time, I'm using one of the seven above. I target aggressive fish and cover a lot of water with my seven lures. I never anchor and rarely linger in an area. I keep my paddle on my lap and some days, I'm using it nearly as much as my rods. So, my lures serve my style of fishing, which is cast-and-scoot. Some mornings, I'll fish up both the inflow and outflow rivers and six or seven miles of shoreline. So, I use lures that scoot like I do.

[PaulVE64]

7 lure Sally here.

Sammy

Whopper Plopper

Senko (texas rigged)

Shallow Crankbait

Jig (lots of tube jigs)

Flukes

Paddletails

[A-Jay]

Guess there's really no sense in rewriting the whole thing ~ 

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/258333-productive-baits-2023-~/

A-Jay

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

I will anchor and pick a spot to pieces with as many techniques as the conditions will allow. Low and slow. Stealth is key. That’s the way uh huh uh huh I like it. 

[Swamp Girl]

7 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

I will anchor and pick a spot to pieces with as many techniques as the conditions will allow. Low and slow. Stealth is key. That’s the way uh huh uh huh I like it. 

 

Well, we have stealth in common. I'm scooting, but it's sneaky scooting. I remember one time fishing the Mississippi in northern Minnesota and surprising some native people who were wild ricing. I scared a moose in Ontario another time. 

[WRB]

When I had a boat carries a wide variety of lures numbering in hundreds and 15 to 18 rod combos

Today I am a minimalist keeping my hard baits in 1 Plano box;

Wooden Sammy

wooden BucknBrawl

Rover 128 for strippers.

2 ea LC Pointer 98 jerk baits

Buzz bait

Spinner bait

4 each crank baits medium divers

4 each Structure spoons

Soft plastics, Senko’s, Roboworms, Flick Shaky 4.8, 3 1/2” Reapers, Screamers (4” ribbon tails), Hula grubs, Keitech swimmers, nymph creatures.

Box of jigs and 2 sizes of pork trailers.

Box of terminal tackle, hooks, weights, clips, beads, line & line treatment, attractant, pliers and cutters.

4 to 5 rod combo, 2 bait casting, 2-3 spinning finesse.

Thats it!

Tom

 

 

[Jig Man]

Jigs…8 or 10 sizes in 20 or more color combinations 

Shaky…6 jig head sizes with 15 or more Elaztech colors

Keitech swim baits…8 colors in 4 sizes with jig heads in 1/8, 1/4, 3/8

Ned…6 head weights with 22 colors of TRDs

Crankbaits… wiggle warts, rock crawlers

Top waters… Zara Spooks mostly 

[Catt]

K.I.S.S. 😉

 

I keep a Texas Rig & a Jig-n-Craw tied on 24/7/365

 

The plastics for the Texas Rig changes with season & body of water. 

 

The Jig-n-Craw is pretty much the same. Black-n-Blue, something green, something brown.

 

Topwater & mid-depth is dependent on the body of water.

 

I seldom have more than 5 rods on the deck tournament or not.

 

Keep in mind this is where I start & may not be where I finish.

[casts_by_fly]

I will normally start with the same set of lures, the specifics depending on the time of year. Early season, crank baits will feature a little more. Later summer frogs and toads come in. Jerkbaits when the fish are finicky, walking baits anytime I think they might want one. The rest of the year, spinnerbaits, vibrating jigs, swim jigs, pitching jigs, buzzbaits, and Texas rigs are always tied on. 

[bp_fowler]

This years list ranked top to bottom:

 

1. Spinnerbait 

2. Texas Rig (Ribbon tail/Pit boss)

3. Swim Jig 

4. Football Jig

5. Chatterbait 

 

Spinning Rod:

1. Shakeyhead (finesses or trick worm)

2. Senko (weightless t-rig or wacky)

3. Jerkbait (including soft jerkbaits, flukes etc.)

I kept a quick and dirty running tally of how many fish I caught on what lures.  It’s not the most scientific.  Next year I’ll track the length and weight also to give me a better idea of the quality each typically produces as well.

[Hawkeye21]

Chatterbait

Texas rigged bandito bug

Wacky rigged stick worm

Ned rig

Buzzbait

Frog

Crankbait

Jig

Spinnerbait

[Pat Brown]

Currently been fishing:

 

Suspending Jerkbait

Lipless Crankbait

Jig n craw or chunk

Swimjig/swimbait

Underspin/swimbait

Buzzbait

Worm (t rig/C rig/weightless/free rig/shaky head)

 

I am working  on fishing other things when conditions call for it or fish are set up funny but I feel like right now this is my starting line up/comfort zone especially if they're anywhere near the bank at all.

 

 

[Bankbeater]

This year it has been:

Yum Dinger

Zoom Finesse Worm

Spinnerbait

Swimjig

Crankbait

[einscodek]

Nowadays, I use a wearable tacklebox and a fanny bag containing a box where I can carry 2-3 giant swimbaits.  I have a goal for a trip and anticipate the weather and conditions and select a small subset of lures accordingly.

This year its like perpetual early winter with some forays into high 40s degrees so I am still fishing occasionally and I go ultra small and big.  This morning caught only 2 in 3 hrs of work(hey its winter), 1 on small crankbait and 1 on 2" curlytail.  Swung for the fences alil with the Hudd but did not bring on any hungry gals.  Few other guys I met skunked.. gotta size down in winter bros!

So yea in late fall/winter, I will bring the Hudd, small crankbaits, small swimbaits, and fill space with jig, spinnerbait, worm but those generally don't see much action.

[Cgolf]

Wow I use a lot depending on the conditions. 
 

River 

crème micro craw, spinnerbait. Short season due to shoulder surgery. 
 

Up North 

Too many as it was a weird bite. One day my father in law whacked them pretty decent on a 1/2 orange craw RES. The next day I got 46 on a 1/4 orange craw RES and they wouldn’t touch his 1/2 orange craw RES, weird. Spinnerbaits, but again it was weird where 1/4 ounce baits worked and then all bites stopped till I switched to a 1/8 ounce spin. First standout was #7 shallow flicker Shad, and the hero bait was a big bite water red craw tube. I think I caught fish on like 20 other baits. Despite the picky fish I ground out a record number of largies for me in a week. 
 

local lakes Spinnerbaits were my go to. Small lake was a 1/4 ounce and larger lake was a 3/8 booyah when they wouldn’t look at my home made baits. 

[king fisher]

Most days I use.

1 half dozen or more crankbaits

2. Lipless crankbait

3. Paddle tail swimbait

4.T rig soft plastic

5. C rig soft plastic

6. Spinnerbait

7. buzz bait.

8. Chatter bait

9. Jig

10. Popper

11. spook

12. Plopper, or prop top water

13 inline spinner

14 Jerk Bait

15 weightless Senko

16. A rig

17 Baccara Burrito 

 

Then there are the days when I am less selective and throw more than the bare minimum.  

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, king fisher said:

Most days I use.

1 half dozen or more crankbaits

2. Lipless crankbait

3. Paddle tail swimbait

4.T rig soft plastic

5. C rig soft plastic

6. Spinnerbait

7. buzz bait.

8. Chatter bait

9. Jig

10. Popper

11. spook

12. Plopper, or prop top water

13 inline spinner

14 Jerk Bait

15 weightless Senko

16. A rig

17 Baccara Burrito 

 

Then there are the days when I am less selective and throw more than the bare minimum.  

 

Whoa, King. You toss the tacklebox! Given your big bass success, you have me rethinking my approach. 

[king fisher]

7 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whoa, King. You toss the tacklebox! Given your big bass success, you have me rethinking my approach. 

    Don't change your game plan.  I throw lots of lures, because I like to experiment.  I would catch more bass if I found what works for the day and stick with it.  Because I fish to have fun, and I have fun trying many lures, I will continue to experiment even when it is detrimental to my overall success. 

       I catch big bass because I fish incredible lakes, that have very little fishing pressure and large numbers of well above average size bass.  Anyone fishing the same lakes, with average angling skills, and a willingness to put the effort in, would have equal or better success.  Catching the size and numbers of bass you do in Maine is a much greater accomplishment, than catching DD bass on remote waters of Mexico.

[Pat Brown]

Dang @king fisher that just makes me want to go to remote waters of Mexico even more 😂😂😂

[Jar11591]

I own thousands, bring hundreds, and throw maybe a dozen.

[king fisher]

4 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Dang @king fisher that just makes me want to go to remote waters of Mexico even more 😂😂😂

My best remote waters of Mexico are easy fish, easy to get to, and easy to find.  Simply Google Lake Mexichuck, which is directly south of Lake Menderchuck on Google Earth.

[Mobasser]

The past couple of seasons I'm liking: a few bags of plastic worms. Zoom and Roboworm mostly. Hooks,  jig heads, weights.                                         Storm Chug Bug, shad color. Zara Spook bone or clear color. Buzzbait, 1/4 and 1/2 oz black  or chartreuse.            Rattletrap, 1/2 oz chrome.                                       Mepps, Black Fury size 3 or 4 undressed. Yellow dot pattern.                      Jig #11 pork frog  or plastic trailer- blk/ blue color.                                            Johnson Beetle Spin 1/4 oz. Green or Black color.                                     I rotate these things in and out as the season goes on. I carry more in the boat, far less from shore. I like to travel as light as I can.

[Columbia Craw]

I’m a twelve lure twit.

[Koz]

I've made an effort to cut down how much I load on my kayak for each outing. I used to bring the kitchen sink with me. Now I bring 3 Planos with baits, one Plano Edge for terminal tackle, and a few bags of soft plastic trailers. One Plano has some slots filled with a few Keitechs, Rage Swimmers, Senkos, and trick worms.

 

But what I tend to fish are:

 

1. Underspin with a Keitech or Rage Swimmer. There's always one tied on.

2. Spook

3. Buzzbait

4. Spinnerbait

 

I'll brink crankbaits, lipless cranks, a popper, a Whopper Plopper, Chatterbaits, a jig or two, a jointed swimbait, a frog, a stick bait, a spoon, and a few more one off baits.

 

With my old pedal kayak I became a more impatient angler using more moving baits because I was always pedaling and drifting. With that, I'd beat the banks more than deep water fish and wasn't picking apart structure.

 

That's why I'm excited about my new Old Town Autopilot with the spot lock. It will be much easier for me to be patient and pick apart structure and fish humps and ledges. And with that, I'll be fishing a lot more soft plastics and taking my time to work the bait.

[Creek Pirate]

95% of my fishing is with three baits whether its December or July.I may rig them differently or work them differently but it's still the same 3 baits.

Nothing fancy just consistent.