The Top 10 Best Bass Fishing Lures You Need To Know About

The Strike King KVD Squarebill is a time-tested lure. It’s useful in many bass fishing scenarios, including around laydowns, weed edges, rock structures, and more. The Strike King KVD Squarebill is a must-have weapon in any bass angler’s armory. To get the most from this lure, take a look at our guide on mastering crankbaits.

The lip on this squarebill helps deflect cover, which limits snags. With the variety of colors available, you can match the hatch for shad, crayfish, sunfish, or just about any baitfish in your area.

With a max diving depth of 5 feet, the Strike King KVD Squarebill is ideal for shallow water fishing. This lure stands out from the crowd because of its tight, lifelike wobble and rattling “hard knock” ball bearings.

Admittedly, this crankbait is on the pricier side, but it’s well worth it for a lure of this quality.

The Strike King Hack Attack Heavy Cover Jig is an excellent choice across most bass fishing conditions, depths, and seasons.

Hack Attack Jigs work well around laydowns, docks, and other near-shore structures but are also very productive around deep offshore structures. It’s nearly impossible to think of a good bass fishing lure with a better resume for catching big bass.

Pair the Hack Attack Jig with your choice of jig trailer, such as a soft plastic craw or creature bait, and you’re ready to catch a new personal best.

With all the topwater lure options available today, it can be challenging to determine which is the best for you. For me, there is no beating a hollow bodied frog, with the Booyah Pad Crasher taking the cake.

The Booyah Pad Crasher is the best frog lure because of its lifelike design and super durable double hooks. The Booyah Pad Crasher’s upward-facing weedless hooks make them useful in areas with thick cover, such as lily pads, matted vegetation, and overhanging tree limbs. They can also be used in open water, completing the picture as a highly versatile topwater lure. Read our complete guide to frog fishing to make the most from the Pad Crasher.

The same cannot be said for topwater spooks and popper style baits, as their treble hooks limit them to open water.

The Booyah Pad Crasher is an excellent overall lure and attracts enormous bass. Plus, there’s nothing better than watching a bass blow up on a topwater frog.

Looking for more topwater lure recommendations? We have you covered.

A copycat of the original Yamamoto Senko Worm, the YUM Dinger Stickbait features nearly identical characteristics for less than half the price.

The YUM Dinger Stickbait is one of the most valuable and practical lures in the bass fishing world. It can be rigged wacky style, Texas rigged, and Carolina rigged. The possibilities are almost endless for the YUM Dinger, cementing its place on this list as one of the best bass fishing lures.

With a vast selection of colors available, it’s easy to match the forage wherever you’re fishing. My favorite colors are watermelon red flake for clear water, green pumpkin chartreuse tip or red shad for stained water, and black for muddy water conditions.

The MegaStrike StrikeBack Spinnerbait is a uniquely designed spinnerbait that combines all the best possible features of a spinnerbait into a single lure.

Most notably, the jointed design allows for lifelike action, making it difficult for fish to leverage their way off the hook. The StrikeBack Spinnerbait also features both a willow blade and a Colorado blade, giving the best of both vibration and flash.

There are many different spinnerbaits available on the market, but the StrikeBack stands out as one of the best because of its innovative design. While you may have to pay a few extra bucks, the results are well worth it.

Use the StrikeBack Spinnerbait around submerged or shoreline vegetation to entice strikes from cruising bass. For more spinnerbait tips, check out our article on how to use spinnerbait lures.

The Keitech FAT Swing Impact Swimbait features a classic ribbed swimbait design with a paddle tail for lifelike action.

Swimbaits have become something of a flavor of the month bass lure. That said, these lures are an excellent option when targeting the middle of the water column in search of cruising bass.

The Keitech Swing Impact series has emerged as an industry leader due to its quality and the wide variety of sizes and color patterns. These swimbaits are also great for smallmouth bass.

Paddle tail swimbaits such as the Keitech FAT Swing Impact work well around submerged vegetation, rocky areas, and weed edges. When Texas rigged with an offset worm hook, they can even be used in areas with very thick vegetation. You can also use an Impact Swimbait as a trailer for swim jigs. This lure really has it all.

In my opinion, the Rapala Original Floating Jerkbait deserves the title of best jerkbait. Not only because it more or less invented the category, but because after all these years, they still catch huge bass time and time again. As a matter of fact, one of the first largemouth bass I ever caught was on a Rapala Original Floating Jerkbait.

The simplistic yet realistic design gives off plenty of flash and offers a tight wobble that bass just cannot resist. With various sizes and colors available, this jerkbait can handle any fishing condition and mimic almost every baitfish species.

For best results, use the Rapala Original Floating Jerbkbait in early spring. Fish it along shorelines and weed edges with a “twitch-twitch-pause” technique, and you’ll be in for some incredible pre-spawn bass fishing. For more tips, check out our article on how to use jerkbaits effectively for smallies!

The Acme KastMaster may not be what first comes to mind when you think of a bass fishing spoon, but the results speak for themselves. The ergonomic design of the KastMaster minimizes line twists and generates an enticing action that can be cast or jigged vertically.

With simple but effective colors – chrome and gold – you can mimic distressed baitfish that bass can’t help but go after in the hope of an easy meal.

The KastMaster can be used much like a spinnerbait, via a simple cast and retrieve approach, or jigged vertically above offshore brush piles and structures. Just be mindful of snags, as the treble hooks tend to get ahold of just about anything they can.

Buzzbaits are a tremendous style of topwater lure that draw in exciting strikes from aggressive bass. When used in the right scenario, buzzbaits can be extremely productive at hooking into numbers of big bass. But not all buzzbaits are created equal.

The Terminator T1 Original Titanium Buzzbait is a high-quality buzzbait worthy of a spot in your tackle box. Featuring a titanium buzzbait blade, this lure is lightweight and durable enough to be thrown all day, plus it will catch a boatload of bass.

Utilize the Terminator T1 along vegetation such as cattails, the edges of submerged vegetation or lily pads, and next to rip rap (rocky shorelines).

Smallmouth bass are just as fun, if not more so, than their ever-popular largemouth brother. I prefer smallmouth bass over largemouths because of their tenacity and the crystal-clear lake and river habitats they live in.

Smallmouths tend to prefer smaller presentations, so finesse fishing is the name of the game. In my book, the best rig for smallmouth bass is the drop shot rig. When paired with a Zoom Finesse Worm, the drop shot rig becomes a deadly weapon for smallmouths.

There are hundreds of soft plastic lures designed specifically for drop shot fishing, but the Zoom Finesse Worm is a simple and cost-effective choice. Because of this, in my view, it is the best smallmouth bass lure.

Rig the Zoom Finesse Worm with a small drop shot hook, up to a ¼ oz drop shot weight, and combine with a spinning rod. Utilize this beast in areas with any submerged structure, especially rocky areas.