Q&A for How to Choose Lures for Bass Fishing

Only use a bobber if you are bait fishing with salmon eggs, worms, etc. A better way to fish bass is with lures. They're athletic fish, so they're hunting athletic food.

It all depends on the conditions of water, weather and underwater terrain. I always stick to dark baits in dark murky water and light bright colors in clear water. Fast retrieval in clear water and slow but noisy erratic retrieval in murky water. Also here in south ga on the flint river I find brown Texas rigged worms/lizards fished from the very shallow into the deep channels are devastating to big bass as well as orange and green double-bladed spinner baits in medium to shallow water. And top water frogs, brown or green, around grass and lillies, will land some big bass. Also try using live shiners with about 6-8' of line per milk jug and rig up the drop-in channel and wait.

It is good to use frogs when you are fishing near vegetation like lily pads and surface matted grass.

Use whatever soft plastic counterpart there is to a native animal. So, if you see lizards in that area, use a lizard softy. If you see crawfish there, use a crawfish softy.