BASS Fishing! What's your favourite bait/lure?

OrganicGorilla

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Hey all you fellow Bass Anglers! I'm curious as to what everyone's favourite bait/lure to use is! Also, what's your setup?

My favourite bait is the 5" Gary Yamamoto Senko Worm in Black with Blue fleck and pair it with a 4/0 Trokar EGW Worm hook.
My setup is a Quantum Smoke PT Series 6'6" Heavy with a Quantum Smoke Baitcasting reel. I use Sufiix Lo-Vis Green 30-40 lb braided line.
 
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Chunky Stool

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That's a heavy rig for a senko!
I prefer the 4" in green pumpkin w/black flake or watermelon w/red flake
15 lb braid on my G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 footer.

Another fantastic lure is the wally diver crankbait, color = sparkle fire tiger.
It's hard to cast, so light line is better. Perfect if you like to troll ridges for afternoon smallmouth bass.
I have caught many different types of fish with this bait. Bass, trout, kokanee, perch, & crappie.
No walleye though, which is what it's made for...
 

needsomebeans

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Hey all you fellow Bass Anglers! I'm curious as to what everyone's favourite bait/lure to use is! Also, what's your setup?

My favourite bait is the 5" Gary Yamamoto Senko Worm in Black with Blue fleck and pair it with a 4/0 Trokar EGW Worm hook.
My setup is a Quantum Smoke PT Series 6'6" Heavy with a Quantum Smoke Baitcasting reel. I use Sufiix Lo-Vis Green 30-40 lb braided line.
In early spring, I like green pumpkin jigs with a little orange in it. When the water warms up to 53-58 degrees, I like a 1.0 Strike King square bill crank bait in the DB craw color.

A white and chartreuse spinner bait is a staple throughout the year.

Favorite soft plastic is a baby brush hog in watermelon magic.

My favorite fishing rig is a Skeet Reese Revo on a 6'9" Allstar ASR rod. I spool most of my reels up with 12lb Excel monofilament.
 

OrganicGorilla

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That's a heavy rig for a senko!
I prefer the 4" in green pumpkin w/black flake or watermelon w/red flake
15 lb braid on my G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 footer.

Another fantastic lure is the wally diver crankbait, color = sparkle fire tiger.
It's hard to cast, so light line is better. Perfect if you like to troll ridges for afternoon smallmouth bass.
I have caught many different types of fish with this bait. Bass, trout, kokanee, perch, & crappie.
No walleye though, which is what it's made for...
I fish a lot of weeds so it's easy to rip em out of there.
I have a few Wally Divers myself and never caught a Walleye on them either lol.
 

OrganicGorilla

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In early spring, I like green pumpkin jigs with a little orange in it. When the water warms up to 53-58 degrees, I like a 1.0 Strike King square bill crank bait in the DB craw color.

A white and chartreuse spinner bait is a staple throughout the year.

Favorite soft plastic is a baby brush hog in watermelon magic.

My favorite fishing rig is a Skeet Reese Revo on a 6'9" Allstar ASR rod. I spool most of my reels up with 12lb Excel monofilament.
For spinner baits, White and Red work great for me. Only problem is, Pike love them too!
 

dirtWeevil

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top water anything, buzz bait with a trailer hook, jitterbug, pop-r, soft plastic worm or crawdad(Texas or Carolina rig), provocation baits are good, believe it or not i caught a lot of bass as a kid on the flying lure. However, my all time top three favorite lures, in order:

1. Lil' fishie - a soft bodied minnow shaped jig with a special tail design that kept the body still while the tail flapped. I haven't been fishing in a long time, I'm not sure if they still make these, i read about them in a magazine as a kid, they are also a crappie killer

2. Vibrax by Blue Fox, i caught not only a lot of bass with these but also damn near any species near it, even a couple muddy cats, rooster tail is also a close runner here.

3. Slug go - with a weedless rig you can't beat a slug go in the lilly pads, always fun fightin in the weeds!
 

OrganicGorilla

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top water anything, buzz bait with a trailer hook, jitterbug, pop-r, soft plastic worm or crawdad(Texas or Carolina rig), provocation baits are good, believe it or not i caught a lot of bass as a kid on the flying lure. However, my all time top three favorite lures, in order:

1. Lil' fishie - a soft bodied minnow shaped jig with a special tail design that kept the body still while the tail flapped. I haven't been fishing in a long time, I'm not sure if they still make these, i read about them in a magazine as a kid, they are also a crappie killer

2. Vibrax by Blue Fox, i caught not only a lot of bass with these but also damn near any species near it, even a couple muddy cats, rooster tail is also a close runner here.

3. Slug go - with a weedless rig you can't beat a slug go in the lilly pads, always fun fightin in the weeds!
The Slug Go is another great Soft plastic. Twitching it gives crazy action!
 

Chunky Stool

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I fish a lot of weeds so it's easy to rip em out of there.
I have a few Wally Divers myself and never caught a Walleye on them either lol.
Those little wally divers catch fish! Seriously.
I've never used a different color, simply because sparkle fire tiger works so well on everything that swims around here. (Never tried it in rivers.)
Hooks are shit so I swap em out first thing. Anything chemically sharpened works better than the stock hooks. (Might have changed, it's been a while since I bought one.)
 

OrganicGorilla

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Those little wally divers catch fish! Seriously.
I've never used a different color, simply because sparkle fire tiger works so well on everything that swims around here. (Never tried it in rivers.)
Hooks are shit so I swap em out first thing. Anything chemically sharpened works better than the stock hooks. (Might have changed, it's been a while since I bought one.)
The Wally Divers that I have are Silver, yellow and red. Never tried the Fire tiger. I may have to purchase that one.
 
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