20 Best Bass Lures For Summer Pond Fishing (2023 Updated)

Berkley choppo is nice. I alternate between the Choppo and River2sea. Choppo is slightly more affordable, especially when the stubborn Pike like to take souvenirs. Close to cover is where to fish these.

Have had strikes on a pause, a constant retrieve and just at the moment of touchdown. Nothing like a topwater strike to get the early AM or late evening cobwebs out! Both smallies and Largemouth, as well as Pike lov ethese babies!.

I bought this for tossing around in my parent’s farm pond. I have had good luck with Whopper Ploppers before but those ponds are full of smaller fish that can’t always bite, and I wanted something a bit smaller to tempt them with.

I got a strike on EVERY cast, including the first one. My streak only ended when a bigger fish BROKE MY LINE. They were biting good on topwater that day but ONLY the Whopper Plopper was getting hit that much.

Something about these lures just drives bass CRAZY.

These things are fun to throw and they just flat out catch fish. Probably my favorite top water bait! I like to use the smaller sizes, but they all work well. Black and loon are my colors.

Great top water plastic. I use it in clear water with minimal amount of vegetation. Starting from shade to sunny. Make great annoying sound to stir up the fish.

At first glance at these in my mystery box, I didn’t think too much about them. Tried one for the first time after having them for months just the other day. The feel of it and the look of it moving through the water made me realize that this bait was going to catch me some fish.

I wasn’t sure how to use them, so I tried Texas rig and the tried and true “lift and let it fall” method. I soon after decided I liked the way it looked in the water so much that I would retrieve it slowly to see what happens.

It started skimming across the top of the water and some thick grass, a 3lbs large mouth instantly came up, grabbed it and got gone. This bait has got me a fish on the line every time I use it, especially when the fish areas are over fished and seen every lure made.

Fish can’t seem to resist it, I love them now. It’s my new favorite baits.

I love these lures! I’ve used both the smaller and larger size. All catch fish. I have had best results rigging them weightless on a 4/0 hook. The lure has a crazy, almost walk the dog action, under water.

Combine with the tail action it really gives the fish something new to look at. It is also very versatile as a top water bait creating an almost buzz bait feature. During these hot summer days these lures have provided plenty of strikes when other lures just weren’t cutting it.

This lure looks great and is very weedless. Does a neat flutter on a stop. Got a nice 3lb LMB BUT I have no idea why I haven’t got a lot more. The Pro version has a good hook and a well placed slot for the hook.

Plastic feels resilient. It’s summer and the vegetation is thick-so it will be in the rotation again.

I have caught multiple fish and the bait is still in great shape. Love it. I even ordered more. Small ones, bigger ones they all are phenomenal baits and you cant go wrong with this bait!!! Amazing!!!

Haven’t caught a fish on it yet, but that’s more a product of where I’ve been fishing lately. I like how it runs through the water. You can fish it multiple ways. We’ll see how durable it is after a few fish have been caught on it.

The zinger is the best fall time lure especially with wind blown pockets on main creek beds on your local river. The sunrise craw is the best color and the next best is the white zinger. Sends great vibrations through the water column and also imitates a school of baitfish.

So far my favorite spinnerbait in the bass lure industry. Best on 15lb googan flourocarbon.

The Jigging Rap is hands down the best jigging lure for walleye I have used. When we are over the fish, it is literally every drop, great lure! We are fishing in the summer right now, so not just a winter lure!.

Im gonna be honest, this lure is shady but it works. I have never used it for ice fishing but I am sure it would excel there too. This lure gets down in deep water fast and it catches everything. I have even caught caught fish in the dead of winter on these.

And the cat fish hit it. really hard. I think the only negative is that with all the hooks it does tend to get snagged a lot. So I have my lure retriever ready at all times when using this lure. Yeah, it’s a pain but totally worth it.

Use the retriever 2 times and it pays for itself and them some. There are not that many lures that truly do catch everything that swims. This is one of them and they should have a place in your tackle box.

Took a serious take on ice fishing this year. Got a 6×12 Cabela’s ice shelter from the gf. I bought a nice used strikemaster auger and $200 worth of supplies and a Big Buddy heater. I tried live baits such as wax worms and minnows on 5 lakes without so much as a nibble so I figure I would try one of these since it was on sale for $5 on my way to the lake.

I finally caught my first fish of the year with it! So I ordered several other colors and sizes online from TackleUSA. com and can’t wait to use them when they get here! They dance and sink with an action the fish can’t resist!.

This variety of fishing lure belongs in a category of its own, much like a flea-fly. No matter what species you’re anglin for (bass, crappie, white bass, I’ve even caught bluegill on these), nor what color combination you’re pitchin, an H&H will catch fish, consistently, when nothin else will, including live bait.

I once sat in the same boat as my brother, whilst fishing in an oxbow; we’d heard the white perch (crappie) had been hittin. He, my brother, was a hard-core minnow fan, despite what I’d told him about the H&H.

I was using a black/black H&H. We sat in one spot for 3 hours: truth be told, I, with my H&H, limited inside of 2; my brother, bitter and determined til the end with his live minnow and buggy whip, boated a grand total of 9.

You can lead’em to water, but sometimes, makin’em drink means whoopin the tar out of em. But, in summary: if you’re fishin a tournament, these generally don’t attract lunkers, although, I have seen a few 6-7 lb exceptions, but not many; so you may pass them over for somethin a bit more hearty.

However, if you’re fishing to EAT, and you don’t have at least several H&H spinner baits in your tackle box, you might best to hock somethin and get some before you head to the lake.

When I moved to Eastern OK as a college student I discovered these spinners. they were $1. [email protected] in 1973. They are still my number one lure when I want bass for dinner. One color or another will induce strikes every time I’m out whether its the right time of day or what the water conditions are like.

They cast great and run true, but the one feature that really makes this lure that I haven’t seen in the other reviews and the other lure companies have never caught onto is the loose swiveling double upturned hook! These things just don’t miss fish.

Every other spinner I’ve fished I will have hard hits that don’t hook up, but I don’t recall ever having a solid hit on an H&H that didn’t result in a fish hooked securely. It’s the way the hooks swing and turn with the hit that puts them in the right position every time.

I’ve never caught a BIG bass with these, but I’ve caught thousands of 2-4# bass on these.

I’ve been fishing these spinnerbaits for years. I even taught both my children to fish spinnerbaits by using this. They are easy to use and catch bass. I bought one of each color available, and fished each one, giving it time to catch bass.

Since they are compact, they don’t get hung up as easily as the larger spinnerbaits. From time to time, I purchase new rubber skirts in different colors and change them out.

I bought a handful of these baits after a suggestion from a friend. Let’s just say I’m impressed. I fish a LOT and have fallen for my fair share of hyped up recommendations from fishing buddies. So, I go out on a fine Minnesota summer morning and am using the 1/2 oz Yellow Perch bait on a bait casting rig.

I caught several very respectable bass in the 4lb range, some very good Northern Pike, and a great Muskie! This is a workhorse of a bait. It’s a great sinking rattle bait with a square nose. The effectiveness is easy to see and if you want to put fish in the boat, buy some of these.

If you’ve fished Rapala Clackin Raps in the past. I’d recommend this bait as a superior replacement now that Rapala canceled that bait. I also like the sturdiness of this bait, many baits show wear after toothy fish love on them, this harder plastic weathers abuse very well.

Now look at the price here on Discounttackle. com and you’ve got no reason to not put some of these in your tackle box. Signed Jim, a guy who fishes 75-100 days a year.

I gave it 5 stars because I bought it from advice and was excited to use it. But, on my first trip. I some how cast it so unbelievably high up in a tree. Honestly, I have absolutely no idea what happened on that cast, everything felt normal, but somehow it was way up in a tree.

It looked impossible from where I was… I was hurt. But the lure did no wrong, it will forever live way up in a tree at River Park North. Bright and shiny, almost new. never getting a chance to live out its life catching big’ol bass.

Maybe one day it will be gifted to someone as it gets knocked out of the tree by an angry squirrel.

Purchased the Frittside 7 this spring. After catching a few fish with it, it filled with water. Took it home and tried to find a crack in the bait to no avail. Drilled a small hole in it to drain the water and sealed the hole.

Went fishing. Filled with water again. Repeated process and added “crazy glue” at hook hangers. Still filled with water. The bait catches fish but durability not so much.

I bought probably 15 different colors and sizes. This has been our go to crank bait of choice. My son and his fishing partner fishes on the high school tournament trail. In there last 2 tournaments they have caught over 35 fish.

But sadly these baits don’t hold up. The bills have broken, cracked, or came off do to catching so many fish and hitting the bottom.

Fished it twice so far and haven’t gotten bit. It also doesn’t come through cover as well as traditional square bills. That said, it does have a nice tight wiggle. I’m still confident that it will produce on the right conditions.

I’ll give these 3 stars because before the bill breaks, they absolutely catch fish. However…I broke 2 bill in less than 5 minutes just trying to get leaves off the hooks. I’ve never had this happen with other brands I’ve used.

$22 gone in under 5 min.

i’ve used all the other popular inline spinners for stream trout and the blue foxes always seem to produce better for me. i will say that i get a lot of strikes, but hook ups and keeping them on the hook has been an issue.

i may try to replace the stock trebles with a wide gap treble. be curious to see how much the hook tail fibers contribute to strikes vs. solid hook ups.

When nothing else works this is always my go to lure. I would even say my lucky lure. Just recently caught 5 bass and 8 bluegill in the same afternoon using this lure.

This lure caught my eye. The color pattern looks like it would catch fish! I tried it out and did not catch anything. Granted the water was still pretty cold. I did catch bass the same day on a mepps comet mino spinner and a Strike king mini spinner.

I will try it again when the water warms up and see if the fish are interested then.

A killer against lily pads. Cast into pockets of pads and let the bait sit. Twitch lightly occasionally to get their attention. Let sit, then give a couple good pops and they will hit it. If no hit, they aren’t there.

Been using this bait about 4 years. Have almost given up on white mouse and other old time baits. I’m 74 years old. Also fish with spinners, worms, drop shot. Always have one rod with Bill Dance Popper.

Pop N Image , Baby Bass color, has been my go to top water bait for many years. It will provoke savage, top water bites, and often big bass. As good or better than other good top water baits.

The swim’n image has consistently caught large pickerel, even when other crankbaits have no success. The body shape is similar to one of my other favorite Heddon lures – the spit’n image – a top-water that is deadly on large bass.

The lure runs true at a depth of about 3 feet. It wobbles frantically when retrieved at moderate speed. I’ve had pickerel come up in clear water from ten to twelve feet for the attack.

I’ve used the full size and Jr while wading and drifting from a boat. One day had 11 speckled trout to 24” and 7 redfish on the Jr version, and have had back-to-back mid-twenty inch redfish on the full-sized.

Needs to be worked properly with short or slower (less vigorous) twitches than Super Spook or One Knocker.

I bought this bait about a week ago in the 1/2oz speckled trout color. As the title says, this bait is really easy to walk. I fished my chugn spook on a 7ft fast action rod with 30lb braid and a 12ft mono leader.

After fishing it for an hour I actually found it harder to NOT walk the bait. You can hit it pretty much as hard as you want and it will still walk. You can make the bait do a larger aggressive walk or little wobble like a frog.

The only way to not walk this bait is to tap it too softly. Excellent product, can’t wait to take it somewhere else where there are fish.

I fish off the beaches and jetties in South Florida. I was at the Bass Pro and I noticed this red/white heddon lure. It looked pretty good to me so I purchased it and gave it a tryout. The first thing I noticed was how far this lure casts.

On retrieve I noticed that unlike my other surface poppers, this lure doesn’t give a huge splash and runs right at or just below the surface. Wow, the fish really love these things. The main problem I’m having now is actually landing some of the big fish I’ve hooked.

I’ve already lost three of these lures to very nice fish, one of them was a tarpon.

This cast pretty well. Not as well as some of the other plastic swimmers out there, but those also don’t have the nice Bomber swimming action. Plus, the price is right. First night I used this I was able to hook up a few times.

Wish I could find some of the other colors in the large size in stock. Recommended.

I met a guy from 3W Sportfishing while fishing for spring schoolie stripers and he gave me a Bomber long shot to try out , he said ” just let me know what you think in a few weeks” I dont know what it is about the longshot.

if it’s how uts weighted or what. but I cant beleive how this lure gets crushed my stripers. It worked so well I went back to a couple other lures I was throwing before the longshot, just to see if it was the lure or just that the bite was on fire.

one blue in 20mins +/-. I put the longshot in a bunker pattern on my speed clip made 3 casts and POW ! Fish on !! Really a fantastic lure , not just more tackle bag candy. Bomber has made some excellent baits for Salt and fresh for decades.

This is one lure that will ALWAYS be in my Saltwater Tackle bags.

I bought these for deep water lure fishing for Striped Bass. I’ve not gotten it wet yet (most of my spots are shallow waters where Zo Zuri Hydros and Mag Darters are better suited), but this one has a reputation for being very effective.

Typical 4 day delivery. Received the name brand product I ordered. No real deal on the price. Haven’t fished with these lures yet but the review is really for the merchant and not the lures. If you want to know about WP lures, they work (I’ve caught 3-4 lb bass with them).

Use them in open water (they are NOT weedless) when slightly windy or in choppy water, vary the size by the amount of wind/chop and the size of the fish known to be there. The research I found recommended solid colors (white, black, or bone) or translucent (bluegill or munky butt) of which I have only fished the colors I bought.

Vary the size by the known size of the fish in the area (I bought 75 because I already own 90 & 130) but 110 is the most common size fished for LM bass.

I was never a top water type of guy. I know it is very exciting when they nail one. But I never had much success with them. But late last year I bought a cheap knock-off from a big chair retailer and I still didn’t catch anything with it.

I then was placing an order this past winter and these were on sale. I was told if you only own one, make it all black. It contrasts the top of the water and they can see it best. So I got the loon. Let’s just say, so far this year I have caught more fish on this lure than any other lure I use.

Including Ned rigs that catch everything. Or a wacky rig. And just yesterday I caught my PB largemouth bass with it. To say I am a believer would be an understatement. I have occasionally tried the cheap knock-off and never hooked up.

Had just one go after it. The noise it made is totally different than this one. And I think that is the difference. I ended up losing that knock-off and I will not replace it with that brand. I will get another River2Seas.

Why mess with what works? My PB I caught was 4 pounds 4 ounces and 22 inches. Now for you southern folks that is just an average bass. But for me in PA, it is a bigin. At least in my area. Do yourself a favor and get this lure.

If you can only get one, get the loon. It simply catches fish.

Last year I purchased a couple of these lures while salmon fishing in the river. They ran true right out of the box, sharp strong hooks, good color selection. I like that they are a little heavier, cast a little farther, and run a little deeper than the other baits I like to throw.

Salmon seemed to like them as well. I now have a tackle box full of these.

has given great results on mangrove jacks both inshore and freshwater. great swimming action. works well for me at dawn and dusk. also works on mahseer. upgrade hooks !

Got these in last week. Liked the color selection. We are currently running Bandits and the Bombers have a different colors and patterns. We are still jigging for walleye & haven’t fished with them. Took a couple out over the weekend to see how they run.

They run great. No tuning required. I believe they will complement what is currently in my tackle box.