So in the beginning of your bass fishing adventures what's the easiest lure and presentation you have learned at first?

For me in the beginning it was;

Split shot rigged plastic worm

Inline spinners

Crankbaits shallow

Topwater walk the dog spooks / poppers

Soon after

Senko type plastics

Brushog

Spinnerbaits

Jig n pig

Id word that question different. I think your talking more about learning techniques than patterns. Patterns change daily and you cant learn them, only learn to recognize them once on the water

I'm not sure if im interpenetrating your question right but i start out with with search lures, lures that cover a lot of water quickly.  Personally i start with a spinner because you can fish it in so many different ways. Steady, erratic, fast,slow,deep,shallow and in basically ever type of structure..  Once i locate fish i might switch to a lure that is a bit more specialized for the structure i am fishing.  Examples, cranks on sunken rocks.  jigs/texas rigs near timber.  Frog's over pads or slop.... Or even just stick to my spinner, ha.

 

But if you are talking about 'basics' of bass fishing.  I started with a spinner and pretty much stuck with that for years when i did go bass fishing.... but bass usually wasn't my target species at the time.  Believe it or not, i then started using a super top raider (a massive 9'' 3.5 ounce muskie prop lure) because i caught a lot of big bass while muskie fishing, it worked pretty well actually.  I got some pretty funny looks throwing a duck sized lure that leaves a boat sized wake in 10 acre lakes haha.  But then naturally after i turned onto bass fishing i moved to more traditional bass lures.  I think poppers, cranks, flukes and traps first. Then plastic soon after. 

 

To this day i am still trying to learn and practice new and old techniques as much as i possibly can.  Whats the point of having a box full of tackle if you only know how to work a few lures?

Well I've only been at this a little over a year.  Last season I got skunked a lot on everything and had trouble developing any kind of pattern at all.  Then I found Bass Resource and this season has been much better.  These are obviously all generalities but this is what's been working for me so far...

 

-Spinnerbaits in the springtime, all day everyday.

-In the summer jitterbugs, poppers, and spooks early in the morning and flipin'/pitchin' jigs and T-rigged soft plastics with a pegged weight to cover midday-afternoon

-Squarebills along shoreline cover in the fall

-In the winter fish for the trout that DNR stocks (small inline spinners and cranks).  You'll get skunked less.

I started out with crankbaits.  I fished them exclusively for years.  Then I started fishing with a guy that was catching a ton of bass on plastics, so I backed off on the cranks and started using plastics more.  Then came jigs.  Now I use jigs and plastics most of the time.

My mepps #5 is impossible to fish wrong and always catches a variety of fish...

I'm not sure if im interpenetrating your question right but i start out with with search lures, lures that cover a lot of water quickly.  Personally i start with a spinner because you can fish it in so many different ways. Steady, erratic, fast,slow,deep,shallow and in basically ever type of structure..  Once i locate fish i might switch to a lure that is a bit more specialized for the structure i am fishing.  Examples, cranks on sunken rocks.  jigs/texas rigs near timber.  Frog's over pads or slop.... Or even just stick to my spinner, ha.

 

But if you are talking about 'basics' of bass fishing.  I started with a spinner and pretty much stuck with that for years when i did go bass fishing.... but bass usually wasn't my target species at the time.  Believe it or not, i then started using a super top raider (a massive 9'' 3.5 ounce muskie prop lure) because i caught a lot of big bass while muskie fishing, it worked pretty well actually.  I got some pretty funny looks throwing a duck sized lure that leaves a boat sized wake in 10 acre lakes haha.  But then naturally after i turned onto bass fishing i moved to more traditional bass lures.  I think poppers, cranks, flukes and traps first. Then plastic soon after. 

 

To this day i am still trying to learn and practice new and old techniques as much as i possibly can.  Whats the point of having a box full of tackle if you only know how to work a few lures?

 

What he said ...

 

My 1st two lures which I focused on was a Spinnerbait and Senko.  A perfect 1-2 punch which I still use today!

Well, not sure if it's the easiest but I tought my girlfreinds mother how to swim grubs this weekend. She caught 3 good ones in a half hour, it must be easy.

Senkos during the spawn.  Your pattern should be protected flats, near deep water, with cover, such as blowdowns, stumps, docks, etc.  If there is hard bottom, that will be preferred.

In looking for a pattern I use a variety of different lures and vary my presentations till I get action. Then I stay on that pattern.

You guys are right I should of said lure not pattern.

I see so many fisherman throw one lure constantly for no results. My challenge to myself is for me is to throw different lures till I figure out the pattern. It's fun to do this challenge. Why do we carry all these lures if we use just one?