Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “creature & craw baits”
Go to any fishing store or scroll through any online tackle shop (shout out Karl’s), and you’ll see an endless supply of soft plastic baits. Some baits take on the look of things found in nature – fish, bugs, crawfish, or amphibians. And other soft plastics look like nothing you will ever see on a lake, river, or pond. But …
During my childhood days, one of my favorite pursuits when wading in creeks was to catch crawdads for bait to use when fishing bass in heavy cover. I liked to turn over rocks in the stream bed, chase down the crustaceans and catch them by hand. While pursuing crawfish, I would notice they would flee at high speed and recklessly …
No matter where they live, bass of all three species can’t resist a live craw. They’re readily available; provide tons of nutrition – and drive bass absolutely crazy. For obvious reasons, this makes crawfish imitating plastics staples in even the most novice basser’s arsenal. As versatile as they are effective, there’s almost no wrong way to rig a craw, provided …
In its package, creature baits look like some freaks of nature, but when it hits the water, this soft plastic lure with its multiple appendages acts like one of a bass’ favorite meals. Bass anglers favor creature baits because the appendages produce a natural looking action similar to a swimming baitfish or crawling crawfish. The Zoom Brush Hog started the …
There are well over 100 species of crayfish native to the waters of the United States. Crayfish are found in the smallest streams, and some of the largest, deepest lakes. They inhabit heavy vegetation, rocks, and any other substrate imaginable, and just about everywhere they live – they’re at the top of the bass’ food list. It’s for that reason …
You don’t have to be a fisheries biologist to figure out that bass love to eat crayfish. All you need to do is to walk around your local tackle shop and take a look at how many baits are shaped like or painted to resemble the little freshwater crustaceans.
