The perfect Lure 2024

Pete Mathews reply :

I know there is that one magic bullet. That lure that always works and I will find it!

Is there any truth to this? I have an addiction to buying lures.

I'd be really curious to hear if you seasoned professionals out there use the same lures over and over. If so what lures and on what species? :-?

OHIO reply :

There is no lure that will work all the time, but the Senko or Senko type bait works a lot.

You won't get a fish every cast, but you will probably get at least one every time you go out if you keep at it.

If anyone knows of this lure that works all the time please share. ;D

Vinny Chase reply :

The trick worm is the closest thing to the "perfect lure" IMO

grimlin reply :

*read my signature*

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

Agree. We are always outsmarted by a slimy green creature with a brain the size of a pea. :-? ;D

x2 on the trickworm or original senko.Probably the most consistent baits ever created between the color options and multiple rigging/weighting options.

J Francho reply :

Jig.

roadwarrior reply :

The Magic Lure

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1141053342

8-)

catchnm reply :

x2 on the jig. Sometimes "old school" is the best. Jigs have been been catching quality fish consistently for years and years. As far as trailers.....I've used everything from pork to tubes to senkos. Most of my confidence in a trailer rests on a Rage Craw or Chunk at the moment though.

Alpster reply :

Texas rigged Culprit 7 1/2" black shad worm. When I pull it out of my box and open the bag, usually at least one bass will jump in the boat and throw up his fins, before I even tie it on! The rest just line up and prepare to be caught.

Seriously, we all have at least one high confidence bait and I believe that it is as much how we fish it as the bait. We get great confidence in any bait when we learn how to fish it correctly in all conditions. Don't just fish the "magic worm", make it look like bass food.

I learned you have way more options than just cast & retrieve. Here's just a few ways to fish my favorite.

1.) Dead stick it for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.

2.) Drift and let it drag very slowly across the bottom.

3.) Cast over a log or a limb and dangle it for while (you can fish a lot of different depths on the same cast)

4.) Cast on top of cover (log, lilly pad,floating dock, etc.) and pull gently to let it slip silently into the water. This is deadly BTW.

5.) Hop it, jump it, twitch it, jerk it erratically, experiment.

6.) Drop shot, split shot, Texas rig, Carolina rig, mojo rig, make your own rig. You can fish with the same soft plastic bait for days without ever doing it the same way twice. It is always amazing to me when I find a great presentation and "load the boat" on one day, that I can't steal a bite the same way for months. Gotta change it up and keep on keepin on!

The point is "magic bait" + "magic presentation" = BITES! Go get em!

Ronnie

Gangley reply :

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I know there is that one magic bullet. That lure that always works and I will find it!
Is there any truth to this? I have an addiction to buying lures.

I'd be really curious to hear if you seasoned professionals out there use the same lures over and over. If so what lures and on what species? :-?

its called a worm

Morelures reply :

You have me sold on this "majic fat Ika" R.W. Just what I need "MoreLures"..haha

I wonder if this bait is too big for the rivers??? Seems as if smaller baits produce better in the rivers.

DeanFishesNY reply :

Jigs!!!

Munkin reply :

Jig.

Allen

brushhoggin reply :

Raul reply :

I 'm a professional tackle hoarder, been a pro fotr more than a couple of decades, also I 'm a die ard bass angler, my take, the closest two lures to a perfect lure are:

1.- Straight tail 6-8 inches worm

2.- 5 inch curlytail grub

With those two and a good assortment of terminal tackle you can fish anywhere and catch fish. Of course that the greater part of the perfection is located where it has always been ---> behind the rod handle.

bweave09 reply :

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Texas rigged Culprit 7 1/2" black shad worm. When I pull it out of my box and open the bag, usually at least one bass will jump in the boat and throw up his fins, before I even tie it on! The rest just line up and prepare to be caught.
Seriously, we all have at least one high confidence bait and I believe that it is as much how we fish it as the bait. We get great confidence in any bait when we learn how to fish it correctly in all conditions. Don't just fish the "magic worm", make it look like bass food.

I learned you have way more options than just cast & retrieve. Here's just a few ways to fish my favorite.

1.) Dead stick it for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.

2.) Drift and let it drag very slowly across the bottom.

3.) Cast over a log or a limb and dangle it for while (you can fish a lot of different depths on the same cast)

4.) Cast on top of cover (log, lilly pad,floating dock, etc.) and pull gently to let it slip silently into the water. This is deadly BTW.

5.) Hop it, jump it, twitch it, jerk it erratically, experiment.

6.) Drop shot, split shot, Texas rig, Carolina rig, mojo rig, make your own rig. You can fish with the same soft plastic bait for days without ever doing it the same way twice. It is always amazing to me when I find a great presentation and "load the boat" on one day, that I can't steal a bite the same way for months. Gotta change it up and keep on keepin on!

The point is "magic bait" + "magic presentation" = BITES! Go get em!

Ronnie

Is this for real or did you mean seconds? I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

Raul reply :

Yup, I do think the 10-20 min time is for real.

I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

So, what 's the rush ?

Alpster reply :

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Texas rigged Culprit 7 1/2" black shad worm. When I pull it out of my box and open the bag, usually at least one bass will jump in the boat and throw up his fins, before I even tie it on! The rest just line up and prepare to be caught.
Seriously, we all have at least one high confidence bait and I believe that it is as much how we fish it as the bait. We get great confidence in any bait when we learn how to fish it correctly in all conditions. Don't just fish the "magic worm", make it look like bass food.

I learned you have way more options than just cast & retrieve. Here's just a few ways to fish my favorite.

1.) Dead stick it for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.

2.) Drift and let it drag very slowly across the bottom.

3.) Cast over a log or a limb and dangle it for while (you can fish a lot of different depths on the same cast)

4.) Cast on top of cover (log, lilly pad,floating dock, etc.) and pull gently to let it slip silently into the water. This is deadly BTW.

5.) Hop it, jump it, twitch it, jerk it erratically, experiment.

6.) Drop shot, split shot, Texas rig, Carolina rig, mojo rig, make your own rig. You can fish with the same soft plastic bait for days without ever doing it the same way twice. It is always amazing to me when I find a great presentation and "load the boat" on one day, that I can't steal a bite the same way for months. Gotta change it up and keep on keepin on!

The point is "magic bait" + "magic presentation" = BITES! Go get em!

Ronnie

Is this for real or did you mean seconds? I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

I guess patience is the key when deadsticking. The time is right, but I must say, the guy who showed me how to be still that long was fishing like a maniac while I sat. LOL I caught a 2 1/2 lber the very first time I sat for more than 10 minutes. You just have to try it.

Ronnie

Josh Bassman reply :

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Yup, I do think the 10-20 min time is for real.
I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

So, what 's the rush ?

My fishing partners biggest fish was caught because he fell asleep night fishing.

I was laughing at him sleeping in the passager seat with his rod sitting on his lap. He jumped up from a little nap and reeled in his PB.

roadwarrior reply :

The original "tube" was a Gitzit. It was designed as a "do nothing"

lure. The basic plan was to fish the bait when nothing was working!

Cast the Gitzit or drop it straight down. Lean your "pole" against

the side of the boat, grab a beer and light a smoke...

This is how deadsticking was born.

8-)

Ima Bass Ninja reply :

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Yup, I do think the 10-20 min time is for real.
I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

So, what 's the rush ?

Well the rush is percentages. Chunk and wind you could probably get 30 maybe 40 cast in that 10 min. time period. I would venture to say that the percentages will be on your side if you hit 30 different spots rather than let your lure sit in one spot that may or may not be holding a fish. JMO

Alpster reply :

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Yup, I do think the 10-20 min time is for real.
I can barely wait for a lure to hit the bottom before I lose my patience.

So, what 's the rush ?

Well the rush is percentages. Chunk and wind you could probably get 30 maybe 40 cast in that 10 min. time period. I would venture to say that the percentages will be on your side if you hit 30 different spots rather than let your lure sit in one spot that may or may not be holding a fish. JMO

No one is suggesting you fish this way exclusively. It is just a technique that can work when others (casting like crazy) have failed. I have avoided getting skunked more than once by slowing way down. JMHO

Ronnie

Raul reply :

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Well the rush is percentages. Chunk and wind you could probably get 30 maybe 40 cast in that 10 min. time period. I would venture to say that the percentages will be on your side if you hit 30 different spots rather than let your lure sit in one spot that may or may not be holding a fish. JMO

Well, percentages mean squat when after chunkig and winding all day long hasn 't produced O bites or looking at it from the percentage point of view 0 percent bites. Old farts like Ronnie and myslef have reached that point, we do what we gotta do when you gotta do in order to catch a few uncooperative fish, deadsticking is just another technique. Have I told you about those times when you only catch fish if you troll for them ?

roadwarrior reply :

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Well the rush is percentages. Chunk and wind you could probably get 30 maybe 40 cast in that 10 min. time period. I would venture to say that the percentages will be on your side if you hit 30 different spots rather than let your lure sit in one spot that may or may not be holding a fish. JMO

Hmm...

As I recall, fishing one spot was exactly how

KVD won last year's Classic and subsequently,

Angler Of The Year.

senile1 reply :

If you know you are fishing an area containing bass and nothing is working deadsticking can be deadly. I have to admit that I don't think I've ever let a lure sit for 10 - 20 minutes though. Five minutes is probably the longest I have let a lure soak. This is definitely something I'll have to try this year when the bite is tough. Thanks for the eye-opener, Ronnie.

Raul reply :

Dead sticking story:

There I was, after trying to catch them all day and throwing everything at them with zero results I said to myself, "well, let 's try deadsticking" so I rummaged in my T box and pulled out a Senko that had been marinated for sevral months in berry scented bag of Mann 's Augertails, mae a cast, took out a Coke and a sandwich, ate the sandwich, driked the Coke and, well, let 's leave it for a little longer, oulled out a cigarrte and proceeded to smoke it , just about when I was a puff away from reaching the filter me line moved ..... oh boy !, reeled in the slack very slowly ( didn 't want to scare it away by over reacting ) slowly lifted the rod and made an lightning fast hookset, goly ! I got a bigun ! after a few mintues fight with the brute I ......... enedd up catching a munster size carp. Well, it was a something, actually it was the only thing I caught that day.

Ima Bass Ninja reply :

Wow what is this lets all gang up on the ninja day?? ;D ;D J/K i know what your points are.

Ok Alpster first: I understand your point it is just another technique to use and the more techniques you have in your arsenal the better fisher man you are. And IYO it is a good technique....for me its way to boring to participate fishing that way.

Now Raul: So your gonna promise and guarantee that if someone goes out fishing and dead sticks they are gonna catch a fish?? I don't think so.. You can be skunked just as easy dead sticking as you can by chunkin and windin. Its just two different ways of fishing and everybody has there preference.

Now RW: Yes KVD did win the classic by fishing to one spot BUT he certainly was dead sticking his Red eye shad. He was chucking it to a certain spot as many times as he could in order to get as many bites as possible.. Do you think he would have won that classic if he deadsticked a worm for 10-20 min in that spot?? again i don't think he would have.

I hope i'm not offending anyone with my replies i'm justy tryin to give my opinion just like you guys

Blue Streak reply :

Most reliable a curly tail grub, works when other lures won't more often than any other lure I know of.

Scorcher214 reply :

Senko

roadwarrior reply :

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Senko

Well, I thought that was a given and we were talking about #2.

;D ;D

SeanW reply :

Sweet Beaver always works. Is it always the best bait to use? No. Will it always catch me fish? Absolutely.

FIAB reply :

I have never intentionally tried deadsticking........but.....there have been times when I have had a minor professional over-run and by the time I had it straightened out I had a fish on. Maybe I should try it without the over-run.....worth a shot.

SeanW reply :

Dead sticking can be deadly. However Ive never done it for more then a couple minutes per cast. A bass knows what is in their territory. If they are gonna get it most of the time they will do so within just a couple minutes. Many times Ive dead sticked a bait for a minute and nothing. Shake the rod tip just a bit, and wham!!! Not sayin longer wont work, but Ill find another area if I gotta do that.

I think it works because most fisherman's baits hit and move shortly there after if not immediately.

Carrington reply :

latly from what ive seen id have to say a dropshot rigged worm would be a perfect lure.

RoLo reply :

It might be a tad presumptuous to refer to any bass lure as "perfect",

because bass don't live the same, eat the same or act the same, all the time.

In any case, the plastic worm has been our very favorite bass lure for decades.

It comes the closest to being the perfect bass lure, along with a myriad of substitutes.

During the past couple of seasons, our best producer has been a 6" grub-bodied lure

with a sickle-tail. Being a long slender soft-plastic lure it falls into the worm genre.

The Deps 6" Deathadder Grub has produced in nearly all conditions,

and has put fish in the boat in water from 99-degrees to 59-degrees

Roger

Catt reply :

Plastic Worm (Texas rigged) It's a long, thin shape resembles the profile of a wide variety of forage in the world of the bass, including earthworms, snakes, eels, and baitfish. Its action is almost entirely dependent on the contours of the bottom; and the rod movements of the fisherman, making it very random. It moves with little noise; the noise that it does make comes mostly from the random clicking of the sinker as it hits bottom. Bright colors and larger size can be used to increase its attracting qualities. Because of its basic resemblance to a wide array of living forage, this lure presents very few negative cues, and is hard for big bass to learn not to hit. Doug Hannon

Studies have proven that the plastic worm is the only lure made that a BASS CANNOT REMEMBER!

That is, a bass will continue to strike a worm even after repeated catches, whereas a bass will "turn off" to other lures, spinner baits and crank baits etc. after wearing them out on them. That's why you cannot continue to catch them on your honey hole with the same lure over and over. Bass will stop eating that which will eradicate them. Not true with the plastic worm, however. Although we all know bass will prefer a different bait at different times (i.e. "the pattern") you can always go back to the worm to catch them.

Scorcher214 reply :

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Senko

Well, I thought that was a given and we were talking about #2.

;D ;D

Well then, I would have to pick a split shot rig. With 2/0 hook, 6in worm and and either a #2 or #4 splitshot weight.

gobig reply :

IMO there is no perfect lure that works all the time. Lures are tools that are applied to fish catching techniques. Dragging, stitching, stroking, swimming, ripping, waking, trolling etc... are all techniques. Weather your fishing for Trout, Bass, Salmon, Stripers, Halibut or what ever... the techniques over lap. There is no lure out there that can cover all techniques throughout the water column. They all excel at certain things, there is no one trick pony.

The analogy of lures as tools is the best I have heard. Some have a higher percentage of use than others. Like a crescent wrench, with a slight adjustment it can be used on a multitude of nuts and bolts. IMO the senko is the crescent wrench of lures. It can be rigged a ton of different ways and fished all throughout the water column. Now if I want to change the water pump on my truck I have to pull the fan. This requires a very specific tool that pretty much has one use. This would be more comparable to something like a hollow body frog.

I have stated that I feel a senko is one of the best utility baits out there. But lets say you have determined that big fish are eating birds (this happens way more than most people realize) that are drinking and cleaning themselves around matted grass. A senko in all its glory may not be the best option, but walking that hollow body frog may be golden. Selling the illusion of a bird cleaning it self. The perfect lure in the moment. By selecting the techniques I want to apply first, I can then select the best tool for the job.

J Francho reply :

Very good points, but I bet I could catch your bird eating bass with a jig.

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