Wake baits.

I bought a few and hate throwing them.

So many other baits that disrupt the surface that catch fish.

I believe I have 4 or 5 -plano 3700 boxes full of deep diving lures. Most of the lakes around me max out at about 15 feet. I keep saying one of these days I will find a drop off and these will be needed. 🤔

Same here, but I'll toss a deep diver when I want to slowly work a crank on the bottom. Those deep divers will keep digging at the slowest speeds where with a medium diver you'd need a faster retrieve.

On 3/4/2026 at 5:32 PM, NorthernBasser said:

Can you get a different handed casting reel/use a spinning setup for your jerks?

This is what I did for my jerkbait combo. I'm switching over for my Spooks, too.

Deep diving crank baits. There places I fish are pretty shallow.

A better question for me would be what is a type of lure you have a lot of but rarely throw:

Cranks: square bills, mid, deep- all of them.

Rattling Baits: Kinda like my cranks. I have a bunch of them but I don't use them very often anymore.

Swimjigs: I just always pick something else- spinnerbaits, chatterbaitss, swimbaits

Topwater: I have about 5 that I throw 99% of the time. I have a packed tray of them and most have never been tied on.

Jigs: I have a tray of them but rarely throw them.

On 3/5/2026 at 7:08 PM, FishTank said:

I have a couple Lucky Craft jerkbaits that will never see water. I am not sure what they were called but I ordered them by accident not knowing the size. I would guess that they are 210mm or 8in. They weigh about 2oz easy. I thought they were for saltwater when I got them but I remember the box stating bass. They have been collecting dust for about 10 years.

Are they for sale? PM me if so.

It’s gotta be shallow cranks for me. The lakes I fish get so choked out with grass that a bladed jig is so much less of a headache.

Honestly probably frogs for me, I have a ton but never throw them.

5 hours ago, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

Are they for sale? PM me if so.

Going to send you a PM. 👍

Got plenty of baits that rarely bet used, deep cranks, just a few days each year, jigs,been years, jerk baits that I once used nearly every trip sit idle now, to hard on the old body. Many more since I mainly fish soft plastics and spinnerbaits or chatter baits.

On 3/5/2026 at 8:08 PM, FishTank said:

I have a couple Lucky Craft jerkbaits that will never see water. I am not sure what they were called but I ordered them by accident not knowing the size. I would guess that they are 210mm or 8in. They weigh about 2oz easy. I thought they were for saltwater when I got them but I remember the box stating bass. They have been collecting dust for about 10 years.

Theyre most likely the magnum wire through flash minnows for surf and pelagics.

2oz baits arent too rough to throw for a few hours. You run into problems with when you have those heavier baits that dont cast well, which the flash minnow is a good example of, and you spend half of the outgoing tide, trying to really send it past a sand bar or to school of balled up bunker at the very edge of casting distance.

Guys on boats are casting at blitzing fish or troll those heavier minnow plugs.

9 minutes ago, GetFishorDieTryin said:

Theyre most likely the magnum wire through flash minnows for surf and pelagics.

2oz baits arent too rough to throw for a few hours. You run into problems with when you have those heavier baits that dont cast well, which the flash minnow is a good example of, and you spend half of the outgoing tide, trying to really send it past a sand bar or to school of balled up bunker at the very edge of casting distance.

Guys on boats are casting at blitzing fish or troll those heavier minnow plugs.

Here's what they are and they found a new home.

Unless I get back to Clear Lake, my Lunker Punker. I have a Rat and that’s a maybe at best.

Buzzbait. Never had any luck.

34 minutes ago, vasbass said:

Buzzbait. Never had any luck.

👍 I gave mine away.....

On 3/5/2026 at 8:49 AM, IYAOYAS said:

I fish a fluke, Ned rig, and a spy bait almost exclusively so technically you could classify my whole boat's worth of tackle as lures I probably shouldn't have. lol

Sounds like I do need to try one of those spy baits 🤷‍♀️

On 3/5/2026 at 8:49 AM, IYAOYAS said:

I fish a fluke, Ned rig, and a spy bait almost exclusively so technically you could classify my whole boat's worth of tackle as lures I probably shouldn't have. lol

That's probably a stab in the gut for more of us than we care to admit. Like others, it's deep cranks. I could never keep them from catching weeds and don't have the patience to learn.

I started fishing with a new friend a couple of years ago and that's been great for increasing my confidence in other baits I didn't fish much before... spinnerbaits and big topwaters specifically.

hair jigs. they have caught some amazing fish over the years. but I also am going to rehome them to a rock somewhere in 15ft of water