Bass fishing beginner?
 

I want to start bass fishing. What are some lures that I should have in my fresh water tackle box? I have a bay boat and I want to use it more than just using it just for saltwater fishing?

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T-Rig or C Rig worm/senko, spinnerbait, crankbait/rattletrap, jig. That's all you need.

Plastic-Texas rigged, and whacky rigged sinkos.

Some of your redfish baits will cross-over, like spinnerbaits, crank baits, and spoons.

Topwater- Your smaller top water baits will work, and get a few Pop-R's, and ZaraPuppys.

Go somewhere you can catch a bunch of fish to boost your confidence in throwing a stupid looking worm and working a slower presentation. (Toleda in the Spring)

watermelon red and junebug plastics

baby brush hog on t rig

weightless fluke

spinnerbait

shad colored cranks

whatever top water plugs you'd like in shad color

That's all you need. You can catch fish anywhere with that

don't buy it from the new Field and Stream in Lafayette unless you want to pay $2-3 more per bait.

that place is HIGH!

Thank for all the info fellas

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Where do you plan to fish?

Idk. Maybe Henderson to start. Or fishing with one of you guys.... if you have room

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You will need to add some stickers to your boat. Then get you a fancy shirt with some patches. Any bass over 5 lbs you will have to call a "toad". And take selfies of yourself holding the bass and post everywhere.

lol for Shizzle, all about that Instagram.

For real though, were can he find some "Fairy Wands" I read about them in a recent report.
I googled the term and I'm still confused.:spineyes:

Also gonna need to run your boat wide open no matter what

Watermelon red brush hog, senko, zoom craw, smithwick rogue. All some good options to start


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Ohh yea WAO everwhere "Gotta Make Weigh In Mode"

If your boat doesn't run at least 60 then start tearing stuff out and get a bigger prop for "Tournament Loads"

Power Pole---Better have 2 for those critical high intensity tournament situations

Very Expensive Matching Raingear--- Mismatching outfits are acceptable fishing for trout but you gotta step your game up for Bass fishing.
(Remember only dark color outfits for freshwater, this is serious stuff, bright and loud colors will not be tolerated)

Red culprit worms and Levi Garrett. Now you're bass fishin ol son

Trick worm, chatterbait and a frog.

I can pretty much do whatever I want with those three.

Shiners and small bream work for me.

Catching red fish with frogs is fricking awesome!!! so if bass are anything like that. I'm going to love it!!

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Ok I see everyone is tight lipped. I'll give you the secret to bass fishing. Flying lure, helicopter lure, and a devils horse. Go get em!!!!

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Cept bass don't fight nearly as hard. Still are fun to catch though. One of the biggest things with bass fishing is being very accurate with your casting. More important than the lure you use IMO. But to me the best lure to learn with is a weightles senko or a texas rigged craw with a 1/4 oz weight. Berkley havoc pit boss is money.

Fairy Wand - Spinning rod typically used with small diameter line for techniques such as: Drop shot, shaky head, weightless stuff, etc. (Basically how not to catch "toads" but get a lot of bites)

Synonyms: Pixie Stick, Buggy Whip, Babe Winkleman Special, Walleye getter 9000, Lake Erie lightning rod, Bajo Minnow Stick, etc.

Most bass guys make fun of people for throwing them in Southern lakes. FYI

For top water I can't seem to beat a Tennessee shad or Alwie Yellow magic plug... I get them at the country station in Broussard


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If change out the weightless fluke for a senko would be my go to baits.

I probably through a brush hog and senko type bait 90% of the time. The other baits the remaining.

That's some funny shat right there, I'm gonna use that on my grandson, he's gonna get a kick outta that!

True.

That's killer too.

Gaspard, the legend!

i would have to say this would be my vote

5" senkos (maybe a pack of 1/0 weedless wacky style hooks), trick worms, swim jig (with pack of trailers), flukes, brush hogs, bullet weights, and 3/0 EWG gamakatsu hooks. Buy a pack of barrel swivels and you can have a Carolina rig or TX rig, a pack of crimp on split shot weights so you can still throw your flukes and weightless stuff when the wind picks up. I'd say that'll put you back about 50 bucks. You'll get a lot of bites with just these for a guy that's just getting into it. You really don't need a huge variety of colors. I'd be 100% confident in telling you to get everything in watermelon red or any other watermelon color and you'll have just as much luck as you would if you bought 30 colors in every bait mentioned.

My best advice is to go with a few people first. Whatever you catch your first few fish on you'll develop a ton of confidence in. That's half the battle. It's not rocket science by any means, but you will never stop getting better at it. At the end of the day it's all about increasing your chances of getting bit, then increasing your chances of landing fish. There are a lot of small things you can do to help or hurt your chances, but just starting out don't worry about anything. Just fish, focus on making good casts, and build some confidence in a few different baits and areas. It can be overwhelming no doubt with the millions of baits, colors, and lines etc.

Hats off to you though for wanting to learn something new though. It's all too easy to stay in your comfort zone and chalk up something you don't know how to do as lame or whatever. As seen on the glorious Salty Cajun quite often... lol

I take back everything I said. This^^^

To start with just get a white spinnerbait and start trying to lose it by throwing it into the middle of every brush pile you see. You going to need to learn to fish a worm too but it can be frustrating if the bite is slow and you not sure if it is a fish or a log. Find someone with a pond full of fish when they are biting and go throw a worm until you think you have the hang of it. Sometimes the line does not even move or twitch they just suck it up and sit there. Takes awhile to get really good at it.

Another good place to start is to tie on a spinnerbait and just chunk it into a tree in your yard, keep doing this until getting it out of the tree doesn't piss you off anymore then go hit the basin...


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X2 Go and catch a boatload of 13 3/4" bass @ Toleda probably right now, that will do the trick.

Don't worry about backlashing when u throw a whacky work, they love to bite when your pulling backlash out. (Meaning they like to bite it when it's SLOWLY falling)

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