lures for bass fishing

[fishin]

hey juys/girls what are the best lures 4 catching bass
thx

[jordo]

My fav lures for bass wood have to be smak, voodoo, blitz baga and mac lures. Fav spinnerbaits would be ausspin and bassman. Fav plastic would be a pumpkin slider grub.

[fishy_phil]

gday
my best lures for bass are stumpjumpers, deception shrimps, taylor made surface breakers bass king spinnerbaits and a few others. never had any sucess with softies so cant say about them but ive caught bass up to over 70cm fork lenght so ill just stick to what i know catches big fish.
cheers
phil

[Cloud_9]

Had different results on different stuff at different dams. ???
fish Maroon and dark rubbers with beatle spins are the go.
went to summerset 2 weeks ago and tail spiners in green and white was the kill lure.
cressbrook seams to be spinner baits. so each area has a different secret weapon.

Cheers Cloud 9

[maroochyangler]

they all sound pretty good
i have rmg lures that r good 4 bass as well as smak

trav

[basserman]

pretty much the smae lure that you use on bream you can use and bass and vice versa with only a few exctions and that is spinnerbaits are bass only and the larger deep divers and pretty much bass only also BUT you can some time get that freak fish that will take them
as for proven bass takers they would be;
pretor tech min minn deep divers in red black
attack in fire prawn
brekly drop shots
squggie numb 3s in purple
river2sea buggie in black
rmg poutugist
aus spin spinnerbaits
the good old stumpjummpers
and the list could go on but they are just a few of my favs (spelling may not be correct )

[Fitzy]

Probably one of the standout diving lures that works well in so many bass locations are the Strikezone Critter large, colors black/red & the purple. I lean towards blue in riverine situations. In the couple of the big lakes Blitz Bagas can be the pick at times. Lakes without bony bream I fish shallow with the old rapala shad raps tho you cant buy them any more. Am still looking for something that works as well.

In spinnerbaits I love the Bassman. All white or add some purple or blue.

Surface lures I prefer rapala skitterpops in a couple of sizes. Color doesnt matter alot.

Frangers I aint got a fav, 90% of the time if you can catch a fish on one, a similar one in different brand will also work.

fitz..

[Peter_J]

Fishy Phil,

If you've got Bass over 70cm fork length i'd love to see the photos

PJ

[fishin]

thx alot fellers 4 the info

[Remo]

I still use bass viper lures. Brown or black and purple.

Rivers Used to love the eddy lures "wasp" type with the plastic eyes. But they don't make them any more like that. Blue and black strip i found was the best.

black and blue spinner baits or just pearl.

[Quinny69]

Yeh, Im with PJ (how ya goin pJ). Is there ANY pics of this 70cm (majical)Bass, love to see it. Sounds like an awsome fish. MQ
PS, The Strike Zones are deadly on most dams Ive used them ,My Faves the phyco in Purple, with the Cicada coming in 2nd.

[BOMBER]

Hey Fishy,

Hope you got a photo of the 70cm Bass would be a few Mags that would pay money to have that photo my best to date is a 52 cm from Wivenhoe Dam in May of this year on a Black and Pink Headed Feral Cat a great Bass and Yella Lure.

Regards,

THE BOMBER

[fishy_phil]

gday everyone
if you wanna CATCH them rather than see the photos, which are in sydney as im not the only one that has caught them at this size, and its my mate that has the photos. troll the nepean river with DEEP divers in the nepean gorge area (upstream of penrith). fish the deep holes near the junctions of glenbrook and erskine creeks. but the location i got mine was in south creek. all you need to do is put in the time. and fish for big fish not big numbers of fish.
this is the only location i have found/heard of fish of this size in the places ive fished. i have fished most rivers systems from nepean/hawkesbury north to the clarence. which is my current location. ironically ive not caught a 50cm plus fish in the clarence system where-as ive caught over 50 in the nepean system. what is the saying, nothing beats local knowledge. this has never been more true with big wild bass.
btw. ive always fished for biger than average fish. my first decent bass was over 50 cm, and was my second ever bass. ive only ever fished in one 'lake' and that is more a large farm dam than a lake. but i fish for big bass almost exclusively. dependant on time of year as i dont get much time or money to put into my persuits so i want to get at least one big fish every trip.
ive only been bass fishing for about 6 years (im 19 y/o) and when i started i got straight into the big fish in the first season of bass fishing i caught , and since 2000 i havent caught any 50 cm fish. i dont know what it is but i catch big fish, but i put in the time to fish for big fish.
back then all i had was and old ugly stick shimano biomaster reel 8lb mono and a few lures. but it handled the big fish very nicely. not once did i get busted off. but i did fish a heavy drag...upto about 3 kg of drg depending on the size of the fish i was fighting!!! in that location it was stop or pop fishing.
these days i fish with either 4lb braid and 5lb leader on a light baitcaster or 10lb braid and 15lb leader on a treadline for big fish. but on my light stick ive caught fish upto 46cm f/l.
the season when i got my biggest fish in the location i was fishing the average fish was over 40cm. in the same year john bethune fished the same creek and was getting similar fish.
cheers
phil

[basserman]

i'm thinking your big nepean bass might of been some eastrey pearch but even so they sound abit large
but i do know the nepean river has a very healthy population of pearch and that may be one reson why they where bigger than on the clarance which are true bass
alot of people wouldn't be able to tell one from the other if asked to do so

[fishy_phil]

gday
i do know the differance between an EP and a bass they were definently not EP's. ive seen them and caught them in a number of locations in the hawkesbury system and on the central coast...the big bass i got only had a mouth about 8 cm across whereas the ep that i caught that was only a mid 40cm fish had the same size mouth. also the shape of the head and the jaw structure (longer lower jaw), the shoulders werent pronounsed like in an EP and also the colouration and the size of the scales. if im not mistaken these few things are enough to make a definite ID.
also since i was about 7, what i learned to read with where all fish identification books (i had problems learning to read) and the like. so if anyone could tell the differance between an EP and a bass it would be me. you show me a fish i can tell you the name of it, or at the very least say what family it is in.
so your explanation of it being an EP has one major flaw...i know the differance between the two as ive caught them both and can tell the differance.
cheers
phil