Your Top 5 Bank Fishing Lures for Bass ?

[chrisD46]

Walking the banks of a pond or lake - what top 5 bass lures are you taking with you ? *One tactic that never gets mentioned while bank fishing is flipping into shoreline vegetation with a Senko or Creature Bait with a bait cast flipping set up and #50 lb. braid. Just like flipping for bass from a boat - just done in reverse.

[Smallie_Stalker]

1)  Topwater - Usually a popper or prop bait. Sometimes a floating minnow.
2)  Spinnerbait or bladed jig
3)  2 cranks -  squarebill and lipless
4)  4 - 6 inch plastic - worm or Senkos
5)  Jig with craw trailer  - Can fish the craw   by itself as an extra plastic.

(Bonus lures: Some sleeper lures for ponds are hair jigs, inline spinners and grubs).

This is a very general list. If I'm familiar with a particular pond I will change the list as necessary.

As an example, if I know the pond has a lot of heavy pad fields and/or tall grass I will bring a frog as my Topwater. If I know the pond lacks any heavy cover like this I will usually eliminate the jig and add maybe a swimbait or a fluke or even a jerkbait.




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[bigjim5589]

I live close enough to Lake Marion, that I often fish from the bank or from neighbors piers. I can't say that I have favorite lures, as I'll often test there, lures that I make and some that I buy that may not really be well suited to that location.

For example, I had bought a couple of 3/4 & 1.5 oz poppers for targeting Striped Bass in the lake and I test cast them there. I didn't expect to catch anything there on them, but for the size of some of the bass here, would not think it totally out of the question. I hope to spend some time this fall walking the dam area and tossing those big poppers. The dam is earthen and rip rap, so possible to find bass or Stripers tossing lures from shore

However, if I was picking 5 lures for bank bass fishing here, they would be:

Buzzbait
Spinnerbait
Hollow body frog
Chatterbait
Small swimbait, which might be a rigged plastic swimbait, or a jig & plastic swimbait.

It's hard to choose only 5 lures.
I also will toss curltail grubs on jig heads, and various types & lengths of worms too, weighted & unweighted.

As for jigs, I love flipping or pitching jigs, but that location is just not a good place for it from the bank.

[Capt. BassinLou]

My Top 5 in no particular order:
- stick bait
- fluke
- speed worm
- Spook
- frog

[chrisD46]

Good replies! ... If you find yourself taking a trip but are limited on space and no boat then you can use Google to find public ponds / lakes with decent shoreline access . This is where a Top 5 Lures for Bank Fishing Bass list pays off !

[ScottW]

- stick bait
- popper
- square bill and lipless crank
- fluke or creature bait
- whopper plopper or Berkley choppo

I tend to carry only two poles (usually spinning setups) so the above baits will need to work well with each.

[D.W. Verts]

Not to be a smart bass, but they're they same as when I'm fishing out of my kayak, my tiny aluminum bass boat, or my regular bass boat. Whatever the conditions dictate.

However, if I'm fishing from a bank it's probably the bank of a POND. And ponds and Jitterbugs just fit together somehow.

Dale

[Hobious]

easy.  I have to hike to my favorite shore fishing spot.  I bring a two piece UL rod and I throw nothing but tiny Texas rigs with TRD finesse stick baits.  I kill them.

[FlatsNBay]

That's a tough one. It depends on a variety of things such as time of year, weather conditions, type of water, type of cover, and water clarity.

If I'm going to a brand new fishing spot, I may bring my finesse tackle bag and try a finesse worm, drop shot, Shakey head, or ned rig to see what's in the pond or canal.

And finally, sometimes I just want to work on a particular technique and that's all I'll bring.

To sum it up, I don't have any favorites, anything and everything! I like it all.

[Rusty63]

I have carried a small sling bag for a while now the five baits always found in it

1 Zoom Trick Worm
2 Zoom magII worm
3 Zoom U-vibe craws
4 a square bill crank
5 a Rebel Pop-r

 

[T-Rig]

1.Zoom Trick Worm -- T Rigged and Weightless including floating worm.
2. Storm Chug Bug -- small one.
3. Rapala Rattlin' Rapala 3/8 oz.
4. Heddon Zara Puppy
5. It's a Humdinger 1/4 oz. Spinnerbait

Used all these in ponds, lakes and reservoirs.

[The Rooster]

I'm late to the party but if I'm bank bound, it's gonna be:

1. 3/8oz Booyah spinnerbait, white or white/chartreuse with tandem blades (colorado and willow) for exploring log jams or grass beds without getting snagged. Adds flash if needed.
2. Berkley Choppo (whopper plopper type lure) for burning parallel to shoreline or over submerged cover. I can fish this continuously or with a stop/go retrieve, or pause it and let it sit in the strike zone.
3. Bandit 200 or 300 black crankbait for combing the depths, dredging the bottom, bumping stumps and rocks (spinnerbait can do this too though). I even probe through wood piles with floating crankbaits. If I take a suspending crankbait instead, like a Rapala Shad Rap RS, then that's another presentation that a spinnerbait cannot duplicate.
4. Texas rigged Zoom U-tale worm that I can fish the bottom with, or also fish weightless if desired, letting it fall slowly near cover. The slow falling U-tale is responsible for many of my bigger bass catches.
5. Yum Thumpin' Dinger or Zoom Ultravibe Speed worm. I can fish this as a topwater buzzing the surface, or trim off the tail and use it wacky rigged, or tex posed as a jerkbait.

[big g]

Because all my local lakes are surrounded with 5 to 10 yards of thick weeds and pads, from the shore line to the rock wall drop-offs, treble hooks are just out of the question. Everything has to come through those weeds including hooked fish.  Top five baits for these conditions are:
1). Senko
2). Zoom Flukes
3). Trick worms
4). U-Vibes
5). Creature Baits