On the Waterfront

I might not go any further with these spreadsheets. Bassmaster angler Garrett Paquette did a spreadsheet of his own and read through the statistics. After 67 events, he took home $270,000. In comparison, Scott Canterbury did 72 events and took home $638,000. It seems like reading Bassmaster statistics doesn't really pay off as well as the higher paid pros. However, I don't know if that's something Canterbury has been doing all along too. 🤔 Is it all about the insider secrets? Maybe learning what the top anglers are truly throwing in different conditions?

My original intention was to provide a spreadsheet that gives anglers a general idea of what lures to do based on highest probability of being successful. Many anglers won by using lures that weren't most used. However, if you have nothing to go by and want to know what catches fish, and have had zero luck with your purple and yellow shad rap, this should at least give you some ideas on what to try. It might not bag the heaviest fish, but it should at least bag some fish. I agree with some anglers showing their sponsored lures. It's advertising. I do know of some anglers that use the baits they show. Scott Martin and Kyle Welcher show footage of their YouTube channels of them catching fish on the lures shown. What they don't tell you is why they use one bait over another. That brings in more variables than spawn season. Mentioning spawn season and seeing some responses to spawn season, would it be more practical to type up a spreadsheet for lures used in each spawn-related season? I could list locations beside the month. (Other variables too difficult to log: wind, true-non-sponsored lures, water temp, and lure size.)

If you had a dream spreadsheet of which fishing lures to use, would you rather have location, weather, or spawn cycle? I can do location for sure but not everyone fishes those waters. I can try to get as many spawn cycles listed accurately. For weather, I might get lucky on the Bassmaster website too. Any other variables?

This is the spreadsheet from Google Drive. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFSRzusNtWxwcoMo1LjeWPk77Ya0aBxW/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=102258890283507481549&rtpof=true&sd=true

@padlin I have the excel document but I don't know how to post it on this forum. Is there a way? The png image files get compressed when added to the site.

I went through the Bassmaster Top Lures lists for 2021, 2022, and 2023, and compiled them together in Excel. I attached pictures of the spreadsheet. How to read the spreadsheet: The top ten anglers showed off their lures after each event. All of the lures were tallied together for the events of each given month. Green are "go-to" lures. Yellow is an alright choice. Red is less used and more questionable. Let's use February 2021 for example: the blue worm was used five times across the events in February 2021; the most used lure for that month. It's at the top of the list for February 2021 and bold because it overlapped with other years' green or yellow cells of the same month. There are definitely overlaps between months and definite winners for most used lures for each month. Did I stumble on some genius information that the pros have been using this whole time? Will you use this as a reference when you fish in the future? Does this need more variables listed? Or is it good enough as is?

On the Bassmaster website, you can find a list of the lures that the top 10 anglers in each event used. I compiled the information from 2021, 2022, and 2023 in an excel spreadsheet. I found a lot of recurring lures that proved popular in certain months. Right now, I have month, year, lure color and type, and the number of times each lure was used by an angler that reached top 10 in a Bassmaster event. Would it be worth releasing this spreadsheet? I was thinking of compiling more years for a greater idea of what lures to use. I feel like it would be either a hit or miss: either anglers would love this information or they would need more variables listed...such as weather and location. If it's highly requested, I'll work on it more and release it.