What is the best fishing lures for cold weather?

Blade bait, ned rig, drop shot, jerkbait and jig. Move them all slowly.

Gulp minnow, Tiny tube jig, spoon, hair jig, paddle tail and jerkbait. Shakey head honorable mention 

2 hours ago, Fishin' Fool said:

Blade bait, ned rig, drop shot, jerkbait and jig. Move them all slowly.

Boom

Shad rap

Hopkins jigging spoon, plastic grub, tail spinner

nuff said...

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Best lures? All good answers/ Small and slow is always a good place to start, but sometimes doing the opposite of what is normal can be productive. I keep a lipless crank tied on a rod and will 'test' it when I've found fish to see if they'll respond to it.  I'd rather use a faster presentation and the only way to find out if it works, is to throw one. 

 

12 hours ago, JS Patterson said:

Shad rap

^^cant go wrong here specifically in the crawdad color.

 

honorable mentions also red lipless, alabama rigs, flat sided crank baits, jerk baits, jig with original zoom chunk

Lots of good suggestions. I'd add a single or double Colorado bladed spinnerbait to the list. 

4 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Lots of good suggestions. I'd add a single or double Colorado bladed spinnerbait to the list. 

That should work great as long as you are throwing it and not me! Just how cold of water will they eat that in? 

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That should work great as long as you are throwing it and not me! Just how cold of water will they eat that in? 

I'll throw it in anything above 40*.

 

slooooow and slooooower ... rip rap and others ....

 

good fishing ...

22 hours ago, Nyle said:

What is the best fishing lures for cold weather?

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

Plenty of great submissions so far.

I'll add this . . . . 

As the air & water temps start to cool and head towards turnover and eventually go through it, my blade bait action begins to pick up. There’s a lot to choose from here but I try to keep it simple (relative term). A ½, 5/8 & ¾ oz Silver Buddy has been good for me – gold on cloudy days; but I like fishing in the sun better.  Something I’ve mentioned (perhaps ad nauseam, sorry) is fishing a rattle bait in cool to colder water deals like a blade bait, can be very effective. While many bait makes & models will and do work, I really like the ¾ oz Duo Realis G-Fix Vibration Tungsten Lipless Crankbait. The Ghost Gill and the newer Tule Perch ND are two fan favorite patterns. Think about it.

A-Jay

Jerbait.

 

 

 

 

Swimbait: 3.8 Keitech, sloooooowly dragged on the bottom.

Marabou jigs work pretty good . Jig and pig is my favorite but pork is hard to come by .I have a couple of bottles stashed .

I’d add lipless crank to the list too

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

That should work great as long as you are throwing it and not me! Just how cold of water will they eat that in? 

Water that isn't hard. You'll be surprised how slowly you can fish a double or single big Colorado blade spinnerbait.

 

I'll add one: tiny crappie jig. My buddy has caught a few really big gals in cold water while trolling for crappie.

Lipless crankbaits, small paddle tail swimbaits, bladed jigs, and jig and pig. 

Hair jigs

Anything big fished slow.  

 

IMHO, once it's cold the bigger fish go deep and tend to inhale baits gently using as little energy as possible.  So I like to use big jerkbaits, large (but not huge) soft-paddle tail swimbaits and jigs with a larger trailer and I fish them really slow.  I think the key is to find the fish first.  If you find bait fish, somewhere close by are bass. 

To all you guys who are still able to fish open water right now...I hate you. 

17 hours ago, NorthernBasser said:

To all you guys who are still able to fish open water right now...I hate you. 

C'mon down.