Featuring nearly infinite combinations of lures, rods, reels, and line, you’ll have some tough decisions to make while selecting your gear at the in-game Bass Pro Shops store. Lures include (but are not limited to) spoons, jigs, top water, crank bait, spinner bait, tube bait, plastic worms, and jerk bait. Pair your lures with a variety of spinning or baitcasting rods and reels. Also make sure to select the correct fishing line for the size of fish you’re trying to catch – you don’t want to lose that trophy!

Soft Plastics

• Tournament Series
  Squirmin' Worm 6"
• Magnum Flipping Tube
• XPS Swim Bait

The flexible bodies of soft-plastics allow them to appear extremely life-like in the water and their soft texture feels more natural to bass than a hard-plastic lure.

Plastic worms, grubs, and lizards are probably the best type of lure you can use, especially if you’re after a trophy bass. This bait’s main action derives from its tail, which flaps and emits vibrations when the bait is moved through the water. Best used for: Largemouth, Smallmouth, Striped Bass, and Catfish.

Tube baits are a hallowed body, rounded at one end and open-ended with tentacles at the other. The body itself is often smooth, although some baits feature a ribbed exterior. Best used for: Striped Bass, Largemouth, and Smallmouth.

Swim baits are soft-bodied lures designed to emulate bait fish, often with large detailed eyes that “match the hatch” of newly hatched fish and they deliver a seductive, natural swimming action. During the retrieve, the wide paddletail appendages wobble, moving water and putting out plenty of vibration. Best used for: Largemouth, Striped Bass, Walleye, and Pike.

Spinner Baits

• Lazer Eye Tandem Spinnerbait

Spinnerbaits are one of the most popular lures in freshwater fishing. Spinnerbaits are built on a wire form frame, with a weighted, dressed hook at one end and blades connected to the other that move like a propeller, flashing shine and color as it is retrieved. A spinnerbait’s skirt is what gives the lure its pulsating, swimming profile in the water. Best used for: Largemouth, Smallmouth, Kentucky Striped Bass, and Pike.

Crankbaits

• XPS Pro Series Hardbait
• XPS Knocker Shad Hardbait

Crankbaits can best be described as lures that are fashioned to resemble a fish. They typically have treble hooks attached and some have a lip that acts as a diving device when pressure is applied by the rod and line upon retrieval. Best used for: Walleye, Largemouth, Smallmouth, Striped Bass, Pike, Muskie and Lake Trout.

The minnow style of crankbait is tailored after the common minnow, a long and thin species found in the majority of bodies of water throughout North America. This crank typically has a diving lip attached (the larger the bill, the deeper the dive).

The shad style of crankbait does not have a diving lip. These cranks have a large, rounded head and belly tapering and thinning down to the tail section. Shad baits are generally shorter than minnow baits.

Jigs

• Enticer Pro Series Rattling Jig

In general, jig lures combine weighted heads and some type of "bait" (plastic or real) together with a "jigging" motion (the continual lift-and-drop motion with your rod). The basic objective when jigging for fish is to drop the jig to the depths and move it about so it appears to swim or "hop" along the bottom. Best used for: Largemouth, Smallmouth, Kentucky Striped Bass.

Spoons

• XPS Lazer Eye Weedless Spoon
• Tungsten Jigging Spoon

Spoons are among the most widely used of all fishing lures. This is because they will attract many species in a broad range of situations. They are extremely effective, versatile lures, and are easy to use. Spoons attraction stems from their action—pulled through the water or over the surface, these lures rock back and forth like a baitfish with a case of the bends. Predator fish are aroused by this cripple-simulating look. Best used for: Striped Bass, Pike, Largemouth, Walleye, Trout, Muskie, and Crappies.

Weedless spoons are oblong, concave pieces of metal that have a distinctive wire attached to keep debris from catching in the hook(s). They run underwater with a distinctive back-and-forth wobble.

Jigging spoons may be jigged vertically or cast out, allowed to sink down to bottom, then hopped across the structure. In either case, most strikes occur when a jigging spoon is freefalling down.

Top Water Lures

• Lazer Eye Pro Series Buzzbait
• XPS ZPop Hardbait
• XPS Topwater Hardbait Walker
• XPS Lazer Eye Tender Toad

All top water lures are designed to call the attention of Bass to the lures from a distance. Best used for: Largemouth, Smallmouth, Kentucky Striped Bass, and Pike.

Buzzbaits are made up of a thin wire or titanium shaft, a skirted hook and metal or plastic blades. It is these blades that provide lift to the lure, and allow it to sputter and gurgle along the surface of the water.

Poppers, also known as chuggers, feature a concave head design, which displace water and create "popping" sounds when jerked or manipulated with the rod.

Walkers are a type of lure that have no action of their own. It is up to the angler to manipulate and work the bait, in order to give it the desired action. This technique is called "walking the dog" and is achieved by constantly twitching the rod, with pauses in between, which creates a zigzag pattern with the lure across the surface of the water.

Frog baits are built with a buoyant body, complete with upturned hooks that are virtually snag-free. When a fish hits the frog bait, the body of the bait collapses, allowing the hooks to penetrate the bony jaw.

Jerk Baits

• XPS Pro Series Hardbait

Jerk Baits are very similar to Crankbaits in that they both have some type of lip to pull the bait underwater. One thing that makes Jerk Baits unique from other lures is that they neither sink nor float. Instead, they stay suspended in the water until you "jerk" them around. Best used for: Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Kentucky Striped Bass.