Fishing Lures

Freshwater Lure Guide

50+ lures with complete guides — color selection, best conditions, water clarity, retrieval techniques, and target species for every lure in your box.

Jigs

Standard Jig

The jig is the single most versatile and effective lure in freshwater fishing. A weighted ...

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Chatterbait (Bladed Jig)

A bladed jig that combines the vibration of a crankbait with the profile of a jig. The hex...

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Football Jig

A jig with a football-shaped head that stands upright on the bottom and wobbles as it roll...

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Swim Jig

A jig with a pointed, bullet-shaped head designed for swimming through vegetation and cove...

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Hair Jig

The hair jig is the old-school secret for cold, clear water when fish refuse everything pl...

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Finesse Jig

A smaller, lighter jig (1/4 oz or less) with a compact profile paired with a small craw or...

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Soft Plastics

Texas Rig

The Texas rig is a weedless soft plastic presentation — a bullet weight, a hook, and a sof...

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Ned Rig

The Ned Rig is a small mushroom-head jig with a short stub of ElaZtech soft plastic. It fl...

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Drop Shot Rig

The drop shot suspends a soft plastic worm at a precise depth, with the weight below on th...

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Wacky Rig

Hook a Senko-style stick bait through the middle and let it sink — that's it. Both ends fl...

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Creature Bait

Multi-appendage soft plastics with flapping arms, legs, and paddles that create vibration ...

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Soft Plastic Craw

Crawfish-imitating soft plastics with pincer claws that flap and flutter on the fall. Used...

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Soft Jerkbait (Fluke)

A soft plastic minnow rigged weightless or on a light jighead that darts and glides with e...

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Carolina Rig

The Carolina rig is a deep-water power move when fish go finicky. A heavy bullet weight sl...

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Tube Jig

The tube jig is the quintessential finesse lure for smallmouth bass and the single most ef...

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Grub Jig

A chartreuse single-tail grub on a 1/4 oz lead jig head — one of the most underrated and d...

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Crankbaits

Medium-Diving Crankbait

Crankbaits are reaction baits — the fish doesn't think, it just eats. A medium diver (6–10...

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Lipless Crankbait

A tight-wobbling, sinking crankbait with no lip — it falls on slack line and vibrates on t...

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Hard Jerkbait

A long, slender, suspending hard bait that mimics an injured minnow. The "jerk-pause" retr...

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Squarebill Crankbait

The squarebill is the shallow-water wrecking ball — a crankbait with a squared-off lip tha...

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Deep Diving Crankbait

The deep diver reaches 10–20+ feet and is your tool for grinding summer structure — ledges...

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Wakebait

A crankbait with a steep lip angle that runs just below the surface, pushing a visible V-s...

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Spybait

An ultra-finesse hard bait from Japan with tiny propellers on each end and minimal built-i...

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Spinners

Spinnerbait

The spinnerbait is a safety-pin style lure with a blade that creates flash and vibration. ...

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Inline Spinner

The inline spinner (Panther Martin, Rooster Tail, Mepps) is one of the oldest and most eff...

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Spinner Rig (Crawler Harness)

A trolling and drifting rig with a spinning blade, colored beads, and hooks tipped with li...

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Bucktail Spinner

The bucktail spinner is the most versatile muskie and pike lure ever made — a spinning bla...

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Topwater

Topwater Popper

Nothing in fishing compares to a surface explosion. The popper spits water and creates a "...

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Hollow Body Frog

The hollow body frog is the ultimate heavy cover lure. It walks on lily pads, skips under ...

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Buzzbait

A wire-frame lure with a rotating blade that churns the surface, creating noise and commot...

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Walking Bait

A cigar-shaped, lipless topwater lure worked with a "walk-the-dog" side-to-side retrieve. ...

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Prop Bait

A hard topwater lure with small propellers on one or both ends that spit and splash on a t...

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Swimbaits

Paddle Tail Swimbait

A soft plastic swimbait with a boot-style tail that kicks realistically on the retrieve. I...

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Hard Glide Bait

The glide bait is the apex predator lure — a hard-bodied bait that sweeps side-to-side wit...

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Big Swimbait (4–8 inch)

Big swimbaits are the great equalizer for trophy fish. A 5–8 inch paddle tail or multi-joi...

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Brokeback Swimbait

A jointed hard-bodied swimbait in bone white with a segmented "brokeback" profile that pro...

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Spoons

Jigging Spoon

A heavy metal spoon designed for vertical jigging in deep water. Deadly for bass on offsho...

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Casting Spoon

A heavier, wider spoon built for long casts and steady retrieves. The wobble and flash imi...

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Trolling Spoon

A thin, lightweight spoon designed to be trolled behind a boat at controlled speeds. The w...

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Live Bait

Live Minnow

Nothing out-fishes live bait when fish are finicky. A live minnow on a hook, split shot, a...

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Nightcrawler / Worm

The classic. A nightcrawler catches more fish than possibly any other bait ever conceived....

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Ribbon Leech

Ribbon leeches are a premier live bait for walleye with a natural undulating swimming acti...

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Wax Worm

Small, soft-bodied bee moth larvae that are the go-to bait for panfish and ice fishing. Ti...

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Cricket / Grasshopper

Live crickets and grasshoppers under a small bobber are the most effective panfish bait in...

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Ice Jigs

Tungsten Ice Jig

Tungsten ice jigs are the workhorse of serious ice fishing. Tungsten is denser than lead, ...

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Ice Spoon

A small jigging spoon designed for vertical presentation through the ice. The flutter acti...

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Jigging Rap

A hard-bodied, minnow-shaped lure with a center-balanced line tie that darts in a circle w...

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Blade Baits

Blade Bait

A thin, flat metal lure with a lead-weighted head that vibrates intensely when lifted and ...

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Umbrella Rigs

Umbrella Rig (Alabama Rig)

A multi-wire rig with 3–5 swimbaits that imitates a small school of baitfish moving togeth...

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Fly Fishing

Dry Fly

A lightweight fly designed to float on the surface, imitating adult insects like mayflies,...

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Nymph

Sub-surface flies imitating immature aquatic insects. Nymphs account for the majority of t...

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Streamer

Larger flies imitating baitfish, leeches, or crayfish, actively stripped through the water...

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Woolly Bugger

Perhaps the most versatile fly pattern ever created. The marabou tail pulses and breathes ...

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