Many lures are designed with a specific type of game fish in mind or marketed mostly for a particular group of fishermen. Fish don’t watch fishing shows, though, and often the same attributes that make a lure effective for one kind of fish also attract the attention of other species. Anglers can get more for their money by investing in lures that work well for multiple species of fish and can be used in many different settings. With that in mind, we’ve hand picked several of the best “multi-tasking” lures on the market:
XCalibur Xt3 Twitch Bait
From Arkansas tailwater brown trout to Great Lakes walleyes to the bass that this bait was primarily designed to catch, a Twitch Bait excels for catching pretty much anything that ever eats a minnow. Wherever you fish, tie one on, cast it out and work it back with twitches of the rod trip.
YUM Money Craw
The Money Craw was likewise designed primarily with bass in mind, but don’t tell that to the brown trout, the walleyes or any other sport fish that make crawdads an important part of their meal planning. String a Money Craw on a jighead and it can be hopped down a slope or swam through the water column with the claws waving like mad.
BOOYAH Bed Bug
If you’re headed for a river, tie on a Bed Bug and be ready to catch various species of black bass, walleyes, rock bass and more. The specific mix depends, of course, on the kinds of fish that call a particular river home, but this roundhead jig is ideal for working down rocky banks in most rivers.
Rebel Bighopper
If you’ve ever thrown a grasshopper in a pond just to see what will happen, you know this bait’s virtue, and you likely know that the fish that come blasting to the top for a meal of fresh ‘hopper could be one of several types. Twitch a Bighopper along the surface or reel it slowly to make a wake and be read for action!
BOOYAH Boogee Bait
Cast it out and reel it back. That’s all there is to it. The flash and vibration of a Boogee Bait will draw everything from muskies to smallmouths. Vary your retrieves and be prepared for smashing strikes.
Bomber Model A
Another cast-and-crank special, a Model A offers a distinctive wobble that will attract the attention of many different kinds of game fish, and it works nicely in rivers and lakes alike. Generally speaking, you’ll draw the most strikes when the bait is kicking off the bottom or bouncing off some kind of cover along the way.
YUM TroutKrilla Paste
Despite “trout” in the name, YUM TroutKrilla can add appeal to many kinds of offerings and for many kinds of fish because of the strong scent of the Krill in the formula. A couple fabulous applications are tipping jigs with a little balls of TroutKrilla and rolling the paste into cylinders and stuffing them inside YUM Tubes or Craw Papis.
Cotton Cordell C.C. Spoon
Crappie, walleyes, stripers, largemouths, white bass, smallmouths… If a fish ever eats baitfish in relatively deep water, one of the best ways to catch that fish is to park a boat straight overhead and jig a C.C. Spoon in the fish’s face. The flash, wobble and profile are more than most predators can resist.
Rebel Wee Crawfish
The Rebel Wee Crawfish may be the best bait ever made for catching everything that swims in a rocky stream, whether that waterway is a trout-filled creek, a smallmouth stream or a warm-water flow that’s full of bass and assorted sunfish.
YUM Money Minnow
The Money Minnow was created for tournament bass fishermen, but anglers of every sort in fresh and saltwater alike are quickly learning that the natural swimming motion of this soft-plastic baitfish imitation is irresistible to many kinds fish. The most popular (and arguably the best) way to fish a Money Minnow is to rig it weedless on a shank-weighted hook and swim it slowly just beneath the surface.
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