These folks have clearly never fished frozen water : ) when the only thing you can get bit on is a wax worm. Fact is there is no universal lure for Bass, which will work under every situation. There are categories of lures that may be productive in every season , including Jigs or Plastics , but just to say a lure category is universal doesn’t mean that it will universally be the primary pattern; so I try to focus on what works best in relation to the season and conditions.

The inline spinner is pretty universal for fresh water fish. Why do I feel like someone is going to sell me the best darn universal fishing lure ever to be created here or in China soon! Fine I’ll take 3! Darn! I just did it again! 

11 hours ago, Zhiyuan Shi said:

What do u guys think? Is an universal lure that ppl can use in every conditions exists? 

No

11 hours ago, Zhiyuan Shi said:

In my opinion, choosing the lure according to various conditions should be a common sense right? 

Yes

I would say a plastic worm or a grub will catch fish anywhere and can be fished in any condition. Really any softbait can be all purpose...I guess maybe the Senko could be perfect for just about anywhere? I would never go fishing without a stick worm....

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Jig. Allows you to fish any type of cover effectively. Works in freezing cold or warm water. Can mimic crawfish, baitsfish, etc.

The guy from China is just messing with you.  I call BS.

If we were to pick the plastic worm, which one?

 

Straight tail, curl tail, ribbon tail, or stick worm?

 

I would probably pick a single technique & the would be a Texas Rig with with various plastics.

58 minutes ago, Catt said:

If we were to pick the plastic worm, which one?

 

Straight tail, curl tail, ribbon tail, or stick worm?

 

I would probably pick a single technique & the would be a Texas Rig with with various plastics.

Picking your brain a little here...if you had to pick one retrieve with a T-Rig?

On 3/5/2019 at 8:43 AM, ElbeNotRiver said:

"There is an universal lure(not only for bass) but I wont tell you what it is, if u have no idea what it is, u r the noob."

 

On 3/5/2019 at 8:43 AM, ElbeNotRiver said:

He was so confident and proud although every single bass he got was from high density bass farm(b/c China does not have native black bass u know).

 

This person is very lucky to be able to fish a fish farm pond.  Ekk-Will Farms (tropical fish farm) in in Florida had a catfish pond.  You could catch one on just about every cast with whatever lure.  Fun at first, but gets boring quick.  I learned nothing of value, or about any secret lures that made me an expert.  Ignore this dude that claims to hold the holy grail secret of fishing.

Already mentioned - inline spinner.

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If I were to pick one lure for bass it's a Texas rigged plastic worm. For a universal catch all lure- a 1/8 oz marabou jig.

2 minutes ago, J Francho said:

You could catch one on just about every cast with whatever lure.  Fun at first, but gets boring quick.

Whenever I try to tell people this, they call me crazy. If it's not a challenge, it's not fun. Except for the first 10 or 20.

40 minutes ago, Todd2 said:

Picking your brain a little here...if you had to pick one retrieve with a T-Rig?

 

One retrieve?

 

The versatility of a Texas Rig is it can fished on top, at mid-depth, & on the bottom using multiple retrieves. 

Universal? No. But if for some reason I was limited to fishing one bait only for the rest of my life I'd choose a Senko because of its versatility.

If I were forced to just use a single lure for a period,  I'd probably choose a Rage Tail Cut R.  It can be a bottom worm, a swim bait, a topwater (if fast and weightless) or a falling bait.

16 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

If I were forced to just use a single lure for a period,  I'd probably choose a Rage Tail Cut R.  It can be a bottom worm, a swim bait, a topwater (if fast and weightless) or a falling bait.

Excellent choice, I do really good with that worm just pitchin around wood.

Gotta go with a. Jig it works from ice out until ice in

On 3/5/2019 at 3:35 PM, jbsoonerfan said:

Banjo minnow

Puh-leez.  The Banjo don't have anything on the Flying Lure.

 

On 3/5/2019 at 9:19 AM, fin said:

Flukes are pretty versatile, but I wouldn't say they catch fish in every situation. You can fish a fluke topwater, on the bottom or in the middle. There aren't many other baits you can do that with.

x2 if I could only ever fish one bait all year long (as long as I could have free range in terminal tackle choice) I'd go fluke probably. You can fish it fast on top liker a top-water, middle of the water like jerkbait, on bottom in countless ways. 

tube. Can throw it weightless like a topwater, punch it, texas rig, jig trailer, insert a jig head, drop shot, shakey head, Ned rig, Neko rig, Carolina rig, a stupid rigged. I'm sure I'm missing some more.

Then there is the pink Rattle Trap  .

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Then there is the pink Rattle Trap  .

 

A-Jay

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 

A-Jay

I’d hit that ?

On 3/5/2019 at 6:02 AM, A-Jay said:

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resouce ~ 

 I have never fished a high-density farm pond in China however, it has been my experience, that while there are a few lures that are very versatile, none work all the time on every lake & for every species.

btw isn't there a bait money in China ?

A-Jay

A-Jay, you need to add this to your bucket list.