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What is the best lure for catching bass?

Great question! The most effective lure for catching bass can vary depending on several factors such as the time of year, water conditions, and the specific behavior of the bass at that time. However, based on the video context provided, here are some top recommendations:

Plastic Worms: These are incredibly versatile and have been productive for a long time. For colors, you can't go wrong with green pumpkin or watermelon with red seed. These colors are consistently productive and a great starting point for your tackle box.
Crankbaits: These are designed to mimic baitfish and are very effective, especially if you can make them dart and change direction by bouncing them off structures like rocks or stumps. Medium diving crankbaits that dive 4 to 10 feet are recommended, and colors like sexy shad, Tennessee shad, perch, bluegill, and crawdad (both red and brown) are excellent choices.
Spy Baits: These are particularly effective in clear water and when bass are schooling. They work well when you need to target bass at specific depths in the water column.
Jigs: Different types of jigs like round head ball jigs, football jigs, and swim jigs are great for various conditions. Football jigs, for example, are excellent for deeper water and can be paired with a craw trailer to mimic a crawdad.
Floating Worms: These are fantastic from pre-spawn to post-spawn periods. They are versatile and can be used in various conditions to entice bass.
Topwater Frogs and Toads: These are excellent for fishing over matted vegetation. Frogs can hover in place, while toads create a gurgling noise with their kicking legs. Both can be very effective in shallow water and around vegetation.

Each of these lures has its own strengths and can be the most effective depending on the specific conditions you are facing. If you have more details about the water conditions or the time of year you're fishing, I can provide more tailored advice. Happy fishing!

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Top 6 Essential Bass Fishing Lures | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → come out with the worm? I can't remember now. Long time ago. And they've been productive ever since. Color-wise, you can't go wrong with green pumpkin or with watermelon with red seed. If you're going to have two colors, that's where you start your tackle box kit with is those two colors for those worms. You don't really need to get every color on the rainbow, but those two are going to be your most productive all the time. So start with those. The next lure in your arsenal is going to be the crankbait. Crankbaits on the surface are very easy to use. You throw it out, wind it back in, boom, and you catch fish that way. It does work. But there's more to it than that. Crankbaits, they are designed to mimic baitfish, that's for sure. And baitfish don't always swim in a straight line. So if you're reeling it in, if you can bounce it off something, like hit it off a rock or a stump or a piling on a dock, and deflect it and give it a... It suddenly darts off to one direction, that often elicits a strike. And if you don't have anything to do that, you can impart it yourself. Reel it down, you can give it a pause. Reel it, pause. Or you can pop it with your rod, just to give it a sudden change in direction. Just anything that's a different... Because that's what baitfish do, right? They dart, they move around, they pause,

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5 LURES That DOMINATE When Conditions Are RIGHT by BassFishingHQ → actually cast this bait when you see schooling fish that's probably the easiest way to catch a bass on this bait is if you see fish that are busting even if that's in a pond but definitely on a lake throw this bait at them there are days where those bass that are busting will not hit a top water bait but they will absolutely crush this little spy bait and if you happen to fish a clear water pond as long as you can keep this kind of out of the scum and grass and nastiness this is going to be one of the best baits that you can throw in a pond the biggest key to catching fish on this bait is figuring out what level those bass are at in the water column if they're eight foot down 10 foot down whatever it may be and then you want to try to reel this bait just above them in that water column and they'll come up and get it now the fifth niche lure is absolutely one of my favorite techniques to go out and catch a bass literally it's probably in my top three of techniques period like i absolutely love this thing and that is the floating worm it is one of the best ways to catch bass from pre-spawn to post spawn and i actually did a full video on the floating worm it's a little

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Top 6 Essential Bass Fishing Lures | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → they stop. That's what you're trying to mimic. And anytime you make that sudden change in direction, that's a lot of times when the bass will strike. One trick is to, if you've got weeds that are under the water, especially milfoil or hydrilla, bring a shallow diving crankbait over it and every once in a while you tick the top of that with those weeds, you'll get snagged a little bit and give it a good pop with your rod. And that's suddenly that lure just takes off in a different direction. That sudden change often elicits a strike. So things like that, just keep in mind. Again, the best ones to get are like, if you're going to start out, because there's so many crankbaits to get, get a medium diving crankbait. One that dives 4 to 10 feet. That's going to cover a lot of the area where you're fishing. They work best for the warmer months. The spring to fall, especially in the fall, they work really well. And color-wise, get a baitfish color like sexy shad or Tennessee shad. You're gonna want to also get a sunfish color like a perch or bluegill. Also get crawdad. There's two different shades of crawdad colors, a red crawdad and a brown crawdad. Red crawdad works best when the fish are up real shallow and brown works the rest of the time. So those are like...and then the last one, I like to get a chrome color, like a chrome with a black back,

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The Best Baits For Finding Fish, Proven to be Effective | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Whatever type bait fish that those birds are feeding on, you find the food and the cover. And then I ask myself, has nothing to do with season or time of year. I ask myself the simple question, "What lure do I have that would most thoroughly fish this structure that surround this bait area?" So I start with a process of elimination. A lot of times fish will suspend up, so I need a little different bait than when they're on the bottom. Or sometimes they're on the surface. So I need a different bait when they're on the surface versus the bottom or suspended halfway. So I choose a bait that I think will work and then I pay attention. If I have follow ups, if I see fish swirl or move when I'm casting with my line, then I'll shallow up. So it's all of process of evaluating your water, find your bait, find your cover. And then go down the alphabet of all your lure choices based on what lure you feel that would most thoroughly fish the structure that you're faced with. Glenn: Tracy, that's a great question. I hope that answers it. For more tips and tricks go visit tankparker.com. I said, "tank," it's, "hank." Hank: Yeah, Hank Parker... [crosstalk] Hank:...Is it May or June? I'm always getting ahead of myself. It's May. Glenn: hankparker.com. Go check it out, all kinds of tips and tricks, videos, all kinds of information.

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7 Best Bass Lures That Work For Summer | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → you and it usually comes right back out. It's easy to get unstuck. So, this is a great bait to use when the bass are hanging out in those rocky areas and feeding on insects and baitfish that are hanging out in that area. That's when I use a round head ball jig. So, another one that I like to use is a football jig. Football jig, I'll use that in deeper water where it's maybe a soft bottom or a hard bottom, something like that. And I like to just let it...When the bass really aren't super aggressive, I'll put maybe a craw trailer on the end of it and dragging on the bottom, that football jig, it just kind wobbles back and forth, and it looks like a little crawdad just making its way on the bottom. And that's a great way to get bass to bite, especially when they're deeper and they're hanging at those rock piles, or maybe they're by a point or something like that, or hanging around a creek channel, just bring along our deep weedlines. I've had weedlines as deep as 20 feet. Bring it on the edge of that weedline, just slowly crawl it along, and a lot of times you catch bass that way. Another jig that I like to use is the swim jig. Swim jigs are, you know, it's kind of a hybrid jig. It is a jig head, but really it's designed, you put a little paddle tail plastic bait on the end of it.

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9 Best Bass Lures That Work For Summer | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → give it a little twitch, and just let it hover in place. And a lot of times, you can entice a bite from a reluctant bass just because they're just sitting there. It looks like a little helpless amphibian that's trying to survive on the surface, and, you know, that's candy to bass, man. That's an easy meal. So, you know, there's a variety of different ways you can fish it when the bass are up shallow. Same thing with a toad. Now, a toad is a solid body, so it does sink a little bit. But what I like about a toad is the back legs. They kick, and they make a little bit of gurgling noise. So, again, you can throw it over the tops of those matted vegetation, cause a little bit more commotion. I like to weigh it, hook it keel weighted, so it stays, you know, in one position. It doesn't flip flop or flip over, and I'll bring it across that. And again, same thing as the frog, the fish will come up through those matted vegetation and pounce on it. But the difference is when you bring it to those holes in those pockets in the weeds, you'll kill it, and it'll flutter down, just a slow dying action, right into that hole. The bass has been following it the whole time, and here comes a meal right to his face. Bam. I mean, it's so easy. It is so much fun. And you can also run it across submergent weeds, too.

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