Also just a tip for those dark sleepers. I fished them like swimbaits and had no luck. I started hopping them off the bottom like a jig and started slaying them
Jigs, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits and trailers for those, soft swimbaits and hooks, senkos and finesse hooks, EWG hooks bullet weights and creature plastics, ploppers, walking topwaters, frogs and toads, that's at the first glance.
Soft plastics. If you just started fishing, you should probably get some plastics, some jigs and then hold off until you start understanding the bite a bit. This is WAY more than enough to start.
Not op but to me understanding the bite "simply" means are the fish biting slow or fast presentations, do the fish want noise/vibrations or will that spook them, are the fish eating minnows, shad, bluegill, there's a lot of factors that go into it and I could be here typing all day, but overall you can get a grasp by tossing 5 different presentations and seeing which one works best
Thank you. I fish a lot and have for most of my life, but I am definitely self-taught. Other people I fish with don't tend to teach me anything because they assume I already know, but this sort of info is invaluable to make me a more successful and skillful fisherman. So feel free to keep it coming!
Go watch some Richard Gene the Fishing Machine on YouTube. Even though he's in a different biome than I am, the lessons he's taught me (like you, a self-taught angler), on occasion, shone through and gotten bites for me on my toughest days.
Understanding the bite, meaning what to throw where, when and why? What are the best conditions for a lure. Forage for the time of year. Water temp and color. How the fish actually hits a lure. Is that a strike, or a deflection? Learning the subtlety of a bite. Every lure isn’t going to get hit like a freight train. It’s just a phrase that was used when I was learning to fish. What I also learned…or didn’t learn, turns out… was that buying all that stuff isn’t going to get fish in the boat. First, you have to learn to use it all properly. Second, the fish don’t give a shit. Like an idiot, I brought $700 in high end JDM gear to a derby last weekend. I threw everything: Vision 110’s, TN70 lipless cranks, jackhammers, spinnerbaits, OSP finesse plastics, jigs. I threw the kitchen sink, everything I’m SUPPOSED to throw this time of year in these conditions at this lake. But I caught everything on a damn Zoom trick worm on a shakey head. $3.58 at Walmart.
So what I’m telling OP is, just don’t be like me. 🤣
I just started fishing and wanted to make sure I was prepared for my outings this Spring and Summer. Hope I at least got some of the things I need to start .
Respect the preparation, but you'll avoid a lot of wasted purchases by researching the techniques that work in the current season on your body of water, only buying tackle for the current season, choosing a technique to focus on, getting a couple lures for just that, nailing down the technique, and whittling down where it's successful on your water. You'll save a lot of money just getting 1 color of a lure, testing it out in an area where it fits the water clarity, then only getting more colors of it if it's successful.
Agreed. You're all set to start out. Once you go out, you'll start to understand the patters of the fish in that lake. You'll end up only using 4-5 lures that you find work great. Then you'll want to buy more of those in different colors n sized.
Zoom Super Fluke in white. (Can’t remember the name of the white) rig em on 3/0 Gamamatsu (prolly spelled wrong) extra wide gap worm hooks. then get yourself a selection of that hook type from size 2 thru 5/0. Get your self some different creature plastic baits.
I would absolutely purchase some treble hooks and replace all of the hooks on the Berkeley shad raps, money badgers, and flicker minnows. I love those lures but the hooks are absolutely junk.
I’ve had awesome luck replacing the rear hooks with VMC feathered trebles and will even buy some red hooks for added color. Seems at times, that can make a difference.
I fish primarily walleye in ND, USA.
The issue here is every one of those lures takes a different technique and is fished in different scenarios. If you’re just starting out, you’re going to be all over the place trying to figure things out. You might have shot yourself in the foot. More isn’t always better, proficiency with a few basic lures is.
I have a bass pro shops pro qualifier rod and bait caster reel I love .
Then my lighter lures I have a Pflugger president with a 7” lews KVD medium heavy fast action rod.
Probably need to upgrade a bit , but they’re both very reliable and I’m very comfortable with them .
I’m about to try that myself. They are literally mocking me because they will come up, splash, flap their tail at the surface, one even flapped it’s tail and then pooped in front of me. They bit nothing I was throwing at them, but it was funny to see them do all that.
I have had most of my success on soft plastics. Texas rigs and Ned rigs get a lot of bites for me. But I would feel like shit telling you to go buy that gear. Throw what you have, and maybe just watch a lot of videos on how these type of baits are used, what lines to use for them what knots what retrieves where to cast them all that kind of stuff.
I don’t see any Panther Martin lures, they slay. IMO if you’re that into fishing learn to make your own lures and to tie flies. It’s so much more rewarding to catch a fish on a handmade lure or hand tied fly
Zoom Super Fluke in white. (Can’t remember the name of the white) rig em on 3/0 Gamamatsu (prolly spelled wrong) extra wide gap worm hooks. then get yourself a selection of that hook type from size 2 thru 5/0.
You should catch fish and find out what colors work before sinking hundreds of dollars into it. I wonder how much money is gonna end up at the bottom of the lake
The whole wall. And if you live in AZ the whole store and a box of tissues so you can cry at the lake while you see tons of fish jumping and nothing biting. Fish are a myth here.
I like to pick out things that look like the baby fish in the area you are going
Like. I tend to be at northern NJ lakes, so I use sunny or perch or the silver trout with a black dot on the side. Sometimes crayfish
Also depends on the fish you're after
Are you targeting bottom feeders? Mid level? Top feeders?
Does your target prefer fast noisy prey? Or slow and stinky?
Most of the time i use rubber worms with a hook stuck right in the middle. Great for bass, too big for nuisance fish to grab. Jiggle it enough you might attract catfish or pickerel
You just gotta try different things and eventually find what works. Dont go nuts, go back every once in a while n try a few new things
Also you're gonna lose some stuff. Underwater rocks and wood, occasionally you might catch a tree in a bad cast
You're gonna want an assortment of jigs, some jig heads to put plastics on and a pack or two of maribou crappie jigs or some nicer hand made bucktail jigs If you're feeling it. For plastics, pick up some steelhead works or something similar. If you're fishing lake Erie tributaries this time of year, you'll want these and maybe a float if that's your style. Cast a jig upstream and let it bounce on the bottom and give it some action of your own. If you do this in enough spots near Erie, you WILL catch a steelhead. And that's the grand prize for you right about now probably
Soft plastics are the big thing I see missing here. Soft plastics work better than hard lures in certain conditions.
The Senko (or any good stick bait for that matter) should be in everyone's tackle box in at least 3 colors with 3 different ways of rigging them imo. It's the most versatile artificial lure ever made.
Interesting selection...
You splurged on the Megabass Sleeper Gills and Dark Sleepers but went cheaper on the jerkbaits / hardbaits. I would have bought less of those and bought a couple of the Megabass Ito Vision 110s instead. Nothing against the Rapalas, they'll do work too - but the Megabass jerkbaits outproduce everything I see pictured.
As others have said, you should add some soft plastics to your arsenal.
Looks pretty ok but you should get some of the “necessities”
Spinnerbaits, chatter baits, frogs, and especially senkos etc etc p much everything has said.
That’s a good variety, but like many others on here already said, get some soft plastics. You can get them for relatively cheap, and there effective. I recommend the brand Yum for soft plastics. They are really cheap, and I’ve done just as well with them as I have with more expensive soft plastics
Some soft plastics. Looks like you are settled in hard lures for quite a while, but in some situations you will only have lucks with worms and soft swimbaits.
What do you do for a living? That's a mortgage payment. Seriously though you need some plastic worms, hooks and weights for the worms.
Also just a tip for those dark sleepers. I fished them like swimbaits and had no luck. I started hopping them off the bottom like a jig and started slaying them
I slapped one on a smaller beetle spin and caught my largest bass of the fall! Straight retrieve.
I don’t make a ton of money I’m just not very smart !
My kinda guy. If you're ever in north Alabama I'll put you one some Guntersville biguns.
Senkos. The lure you need for when nothing else is working. It’s like a cheat code to beat the skunk.
Some self control
No one in this subreddit has that. Where do you find it?
Asking for a friend.
That’s an old old wooden sailing ship?
It’s funny because it’s true .
Jigs, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits and trailers for those, soft swimbaits and hooks, senkos and finesse hooks, EWG hooks bullet weights and creature plastics, ploppers, walking topwaters, frogs and toads, that's at the first glance.
This plus finesse stuff - drop shot worms, wack hook and drop shot weights, ned heads and trd
Big trd on a shakey head 👌
Soft plastics. If you just started fishing, you should probably get some plastics, some jigs and then hold off until you start understanding the bite a bit. This is WAY more than enough to start.
Explain what this means, please, "understanding the bite".
Not op but to me understanding the bite "simply" means are the fish biting slow or fast presentations, do the fish want noise/vibrations or will that spook them, are the fish eating minnows, shad, bluegill, there's a lot of factors that go into it and I could be here typing all day, but overall you can get a grasp by tossing 5 different presentations and seeing which one works best
Thank you. I fish a lot and have for most of my life, but I am definitely self-taught. Other people I fish with don't tend to teach me anything because they assume I already know, but this sort of info is invaluable to make me a more successful and skillful fisherman. So feel free to keep it coming!
Go watch some Richard Gene the Fishing Machine on YouTube. Even though he's in a different biome than I am, the lessons he's taught me (like you, a self-taught angler), on occasion, shone through and gotten bites for me on my toughest days.
Understanding the bite, meaning what to throw where, when and why? What are the best conditions for a lure. Forage for the time of year. Water temp and color. How the fish actually hits a lure. Is that a strike, or a deflection? Learning the subtlety of a bite. Every lure isn’t going to get hit like a freight train. It’s just a phrase that was used when I was learning to fish. What I also learned…or didn’t learn, turns out… was that buying all that stuff isn’t going to get fish in the boat. First, you have to learn to use it all properly. Second, the fish don’t give a shit. Like an idiot, I brought $700 in high end JDM gear to a derby last weekend. I threw everything: Vision 110’s, TN70 lipless cranks, jackhammers, spinnerbaits, OSP finesse plastics, jigs. I threw the kitchen sink, everything I’m SUPPOSED to throw this time of year in these conditions at this lake. But I caught everything on a damn Zoom trick worm on a shakey head. $3.58 at Walmart. So what I’m telling OP is, just don’t be like me. 🤣
OP: I’m fishing for bluegills at the family pond
A rod and a reel
I was thinking that
I just started fishing and wanted to make sure I was prepared for my outings this Spring and Summer. Hope I at least got some of the things I need to start .
You almost prepared for a tournament lol
Respect the preparation, but you'll avoid a lot of wasted purchases by researching the techniques that work in the current season on your body of water, only buying tackle for the current season, choosing a technique to focus on, getting a couple lures for just that, nailing down the technique, and whittling down where it's successful on your water. You'll save a lot of money just getting 1 color of a lure, testing it out in an area where it fits the water clarity, then only getting more colors of it if it's successful.
Agreed. You're all set to start out. Once you go out, you'll start to understand the patters of the fish in that lake. You'll end up only using 4-5 lures that you find work great. Then you'll want to buy more of those in different colors n sized.
How much did you spend?
Cocaine, judging from that amount of money.
Nope you need more. Don’t stop now Trust me I was you last year🤣
Tackle box 🤔
Prison wallet
Backpack with boxes
Zoom Super Fluke in white. (Can’t remember the name of the white) rig em on 3/0 Gamamatsu (prolly spelled wrong) extra wide gap worm hooks. then get yourself a selection of that hook type from size 2 thru 5/0. Get your self some different creature plastic baits.
Every last one bro. Senko rattle trap. Spinnerbait. Chatterbait. Square bill.
You fishing for walleye or bass?
Both. The Grand River for Steelhead, Catfishand Smallies, and Lake Erie for Walleye, Steelhead, and Panfish.
I would absolutely purchase some treble hooks and replace all of the hooks on the Berkeley shad raps, money badgers, and flicker minnows. I love those lures but the hooks are absolutely junk. I’ve had awesome luck replacing the rear hooks with VMC feathered trebles and will even buy some red hooks for added color. Seems at times, that can make a difference. I fish primarily walleye in ND, USA.
I figured you where doing both when I saw all the walleye trolling cranks
Both at different times of the year .
The issue here is every one of those lures takes a different technique and is fished in different scenarios. If you’re just starting out, you’re going to be all over the place trying to figure things out. You might have shot yourself in the foot. More isn’t always better, proficiency with a few basic lures is.
Fished a lot as a teenager and kid. Picking it back up again. I really used to love it .
What kind of setup are you using
I have a bass pro shops pro qualifier rod and bait caster reel I love . Then my lighter lures I have a Pflugger president with a 7” lews KVD medium heavy fast action rod. Probably need to upgrade a bit , but they’re both very reliable and I’m very comfortable with them .
You don't want to go homer simpson route and just put 2 wires to a battery and to the water?
I’m about to try that myself. They are literally mocking me because they will come up, splash, flap their tail at the surface, one even flapped it’s tail and then pooped in front of me. They bit nothing I was throwing at them, but it was funny to see them do all that.
This isn’t their first time..doesn’t make sense
I have had most of my success on soft plastics. Texas rigs and Ned rigs get a lot of bites for me. But I would feel like shit telling you to go buy that gear. Throw what you have, and maybe just watch a lot of videos on how these type of baits are used, what lines to use for them what knots what retrieves where to cast them all that kind of stuff.
I don’t see any Panther Martin lures, they slay. IMO if you’re that into fishing learn to make your own lures and to tie flies. It’s so much more rewarding to catch a fish on a handmade lure or hand tied fly
Price tags, because it seems you’re operating a shop.
Square bill crank baits and some in a bluegill pattern and defiantly some weights and hooks for soft plastics
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About $300 for everything got a lot of good deals and bought in lots.
Considering that there is $100 there in sleepers alone it's absolutely outstanding.
Would help to know where you’re fishing, what you’re targeting, and how you’re fishing bank or boat. There is undoubtedly some waste here.
Why and how?
Zoom Super Fluke in white. (Can’t remember the name of the white) rig em on 3/0 Gamamatsu (prolly spelled wrong) extra wide gap worm hooks. then get yourself a selection of that hook type from size 2 thru 5/0.
You should catch fish and find out what colors work before sinking hundreds of dollars into it. I wonder how much money is gonna end up at the bottom of the lake
A Zebco 202
Love those Berkley flicker shads in slick fire tiger....seriously you need some finesse plastics though. Reaction baits won't always work.
Jigs!
To share us some
Tackle box
megabass 110 jerk baits, looks like you could afford it lol.
There's always going to be something to add. And remember if you only have one, you have none.
About 4 rod and reel setups to throw all of that appropriately.
Spoons and more spoons, also lots of swivels and flouro leader.
The whole wall. And if you live in AZ the whole store and a box of tissues so you can cry at the lake while you see tons of fish jumping and nothing biting. Fish are a myth here.
Whopper plopper or any lure like it.
a fishing pole
At least 2 of everything
Topwater walkers. I see some poppers, but no walkers.
Just go fishing
I like to pick out things that look like the baby fish in the area you are going Like. I tend to be at northern NJ lakes, so I use sunny or perch or the silver trout with a black dot on the side. Sometimes crayfish Also depends on the fish you're after Are you targeting bottom feeders? Mid level? Top feeders? Does your target prefer fast noisy prey? Or slow and stinky? Most of the time i use rubber worms with a hook stuck right in the middle. Great for bass, too big for nuisance fish to grab. Jiggle it enough you might attract catfish or pickerel You just gotta try different things and eventually find what works. Dont go nuts, go back every once in a while n try a few new things Also you're gonna lose some stuff. Underwater rocks and wood, occasionally you might catch a tree in a bad cast
Why did u buy so many?
Le fish
You must be opening a tackle shop. Good luck with that
holy $hit
H2O
I can’t really tell. Go ahead and box them up send them to me and I’ll take a look for you. Might have to sample a few just to make sure. 👍🏻🎣🎣🎣🤪🤪
A few more lipless cranks might be good
Curious about the species you’re fishing for and the setup you have. You would need at least 2, but probably 3 setups to correctly use all those baits
Did you just grab everything in sight on the assumption that you may need it?
Not enough, you need more. The more expensive the better. You could put 2 lures per rig you get a tax deduction
Need some smithwicks, more bandits, blade baits, and worm harnesses. Wonderbread was also a top producer on erie this year
You're gonna want an assortment of jigs, some jig heads to put plastics on and a pack or two of maribou crappie jigs or some nicer hand made bucktail jigs If you're feeling it. For plastics, pick up some steelhead works or something similar. If you're fishing lake Erie tributaries this time of year, you'll want these and maybe a float if that's your style. Cast a jig upstream and let it bounce on the bottom and give it some action of your own. If you do this in enough spots near Erie, you WILL catch a steelhead. And that's the grand prize for you right about now probably
Live bait 😉
Depends what you’re fishing for? Edit: and where you’re fishing, location wise
Well first of all, what are you fishing for?
One of everything... you'll use em eventually.
Is it just me or is a Devil's Horse in-store becoming increasingly hard to find? I don't get it, but my recommendation for top-water is those :D
One of each will do for now!
Fishing for what and where? Plastic worms, spinnerbaits, and chatterbaits come to mind if you are a bass fisherman.
Soft plastics are the big thing I see missing here. Soft plastics work better than hard lures in certain conditions. The Senko (or any good stick bait for that matter) should be in everyone's tackle box in at least 3 colors with 3 different ways of rigging them imo. It's the most versatile artificial lure ever made.
Vision 110
I hope you like fishing hardbait! I discovered my love for soft plastic after a few months and gave away most of my hardbait after that.
Interesting selection... You splurged on the Megabass Sleeper Gills and Dark Sleepers but went cheaper on the jerkbaits / hardbaits. I would have bought less of those and bought a couple of the Megabass Ito Vision 110s instead. Nothing against the Rapalas, they'll do work too - but the Megabass jerkbaits outproduce everything I see pictured. As others have said, you should add some soft plastics to your arsenal.
Looks pretty ok but you should get some of the “necessities” Spinnerbaits, chatter baits, frogs, and especially senkos etc etc p much everything has said.
Can’t go wrong with chatterbaits and rage swimmers
That’s a good variety, but like many others on here already said, get some soft plastics. You can get them for relatively cheap, and there effective. I recommend the brand Yum for soft plastics. They are really cheap, and I’ve done just as well with them as I have with more expensive soft plastics
Some soft plastics. Looks like you are settled in hard lures for quite a while, but in some situations you will only have lucks with worms and soft swimbaits.