How to Choose the Right Bait When Bass Fishing

Video Transcript

"Okay, we're going to talk about some general basic bass fishing techniques and lures. What you generally will have is you're going to have a top water, which is generally a summertime and fall type pattern. You're going to have crank baits which you can use year round, different, there's different baits, different types of crank baits that you can have. Then you've got like, and they'll be listed as a hard bait, that'll be a crank bait. You've got a hard baits, in my book, would be generally a spinner bait or a buzz bait. And they're, they're good spring, summer, fall and even in the winter. You've just got to really play with all the lures. And then the most common type of lure that everybody uses and, and everybody has, is your soft plastic lures. So, soft plastic lures can incorporate anything from your, your giant plastic worms, which is kind of the rev, you know started the whole deal, you've got your big giant worm right there, big bass lure. Bass really like them. You've got all the way down down to fishing just, you know, a small grub, a little four inch grub, catch a smaller bass. You can catch crappie, bluegill, with something like that and you can catch your very large bass. Very common, it's a very good technique for kids where they just like to cast the reel, cast the reel. Use a nice grub. And then you've got your more, you know, you could say, you could call it a specified type lure where pretty soon your baits getting more, to replicate what's in the water. This is a crawdad looking bait, just a whole big main body with a whole bunch of appendages on it. And they'll call that a creature bait. So there's a lot of variations in soft plastic baits. And then you've got your big worms, and your lizards, and that, where you're rigging on a Texas rig, or a Carolina rig and you're fishing them right on the bottom and dragging them. So probably the most versatile bait, over everything would be your soft plastic lures, because you can fish everything from top, all the way down to the bottom. Now on your top, just straight top water baits, on a hard bait, we've got, this is a, a Lucky Craft Sammy and what it'll do, is you'll cast it out on the water and it floats. You'll want to be using a monofilament on your line, You want to be using a heavy line, and the reason why the heavy line is, is cause when you're working the bait, you want it, you want it to be pushing the bait. You don't want the bait to run over the, your line and get it caught up in your hook. So use a heavy mono, that's really stiff, you'll get a lot of better action with your, your top water baits and they won't be sinking. This little bait works on the surface and it causes an action when you're working it, called walk the dog where you're constantly moving it and the bait's just doing a zigzag pattern across the water. Other baits like a pop bar or a chugger, you cast them out and you just chug them, they, and they blurp, blurp and you just bring them back. And you'll, you know they're a good summertime and a fall bait, early morning, late evening, and, but in some certain lakes and certain times of the year, you can use top water all day long. I've used a, a top water baits all day long."