so I've been taking my little cousin fishing the past 2 years and he loves it and I'm slowly getting him out of using bait he was doing good on the rapala stick baits (smallest ones) but he's not the best at casting yet, so can you help and give me some suggestions on some lures that he might be good at using that are almost weedless and can catch a wide variety of fish?

 

 

thanks

Frogs, any condition bass eat 'em.  They are so much fun, super easy to use, heavy enough to cast and as weedless as possible.  Don't worry about braid or rod action or color.  Let him pick a couple cheapies online and have at it.  The braid thing might not be a bad idea, but if he breaks off who cares it's still fun. 

Joes Flies inline spinners. I have fished with them for many years and there in not a species of fish that will not hit them, stick with the 1/4 oz, easier to cast.  My son lives in North west pa and since I gave him his first ones that is all he usually fishes with. I use brown, black and the hackle colors. I have caught Large mouth, smallmouth, white bass, rock bass, catfish, carp, creek chub, perch, walleye, Muskie,crappie, bluegill, all on these lures. I hit a local lake one morning last summer and in 3 cast caught a largemouth, a catfish and a crappie all on the same brown Joes Fly.

Texas Rigged soft plastic worm.

Texas Rigged soft plastic worm.

well i was looking for something that can catch bluegill, crappie, perch, bass pretty much everything but thanks

I am super serious about Joes Flies, meps, blue fox ect dont compare, they are hard to find around where I live, but I have bought them at wall mart up around Erie.  There really is not anything these wont catch. Great for smallmouth in rivers, I dont even take anything else with me when I go wading.

well i was looking for something that can catch bluegill, crappie, perch, bass pretty much everything but thanks

......Okay. Then a Texas rigged baby rage craw or something. The bait doesn't matter. The rig is what's important. Its pretty much weedless if you rig it right and impossible to fish wrong. All you have to do is cast it toward a target, let it sit for a second then slowly drag it back with lots of pauses. This rig will catch anything willing to bite a lure.

Frogs are great baits, probably my favorite, but they are not good in any condition.

Inline spinners are definitely known for being very productive for multiple species, and I definitely wouldn't count them out, but they are far from weedless if that is what you are after.

Johnson silver minnow. Simple to cast and simple retrieve.