Whopper Plopper. Everyone catches on these things but me. I catch all day any season on a popper, but a whopper Plopper has landed me a small pickerel and nothing else. Seems pretty worthless to me.
@@mikeandrade586 I use a choppo 90 in gizzard shad and have caught a lot of bass. Funny how that works. I never caught a fish on a chatterbait yet and alot of people swear by them. It all depends if you ask me.
@@matthall8378 PB for the year(5.1) on a blue chatterbait. The really cheap 5 dollar one Z-man makes lol. And it's gotten me many other 4+ pounders. Try using a really small trailer like a TRD and do a lot of gun and run. I've noticed they usually take it first cast in an area.
@LowBrowFishing i actually have two worst lures i just can't get confidence in so therefore I haven't caught any fish on them. The chatter bait and the spinnerbait.
@@mikeandrade586 I have the original zman chatterbait in white and I added a zako style swimbait in ice minnow behind it. It looks awesome and I'd bite it 😂. I don't have any vegetation in my river though and people say it works great around grass. We got laydowns, rock and a silt bottom. Maybe I should try another color instead or a different trailer.
I had a bunch of jerkbaits years ago that the plastic molding around the eye the hooks attach to was not sealed tight. Water filled them up super fast and after a cast or two those jerkbaits sunk like a rock. So disappointing. Don’t even know how they made it to store shelves.
That can be very frustrating, especially when you consider the cost of fishing tackle. Oddly, though, I have a cheap Ozark Trails small squarebill the leaks and fills up with water. But in my case, it's a flaw that works in my favor as it's one of my favorite winter baits because of how small it is and how much deeper it can get.
6:27 not all surface baits “float” some you actually have to fish and impart the action.. the action on the spider is the profile itself and the legs. It’s meant for throwing to specific targets and getting bit on the fall or shortly after. They’re good in marsh’s and ponds. Not my preferred lure at all. And LH makes a lot of trash. But they’re applicable in some situations
Ah, the Sammy! I thought it was just me, but I can’t get mine (size 85) to walk consistently either. I walk other baits effortlessly that are a fraction of the cost and I really like other Lucky Craft products. (I also never caught squat on the Berkeley Dime this season.)
I'm so glad you mentioned crankbait tracking! Most guys don't have a clue about how to get a crankbait to run straight. As you said, gentle tweaks are all you need. I have never bought a new crankbait that didn't need at least some tuning.
I complete with the low to know hook ups on the frog baits and not just the one you spoke but all the other similar baits like it. I have not given up on them though as I am going to experiment with some trailers hooks I have in mind in hopes of increasing my hookup rates as these things in my opinion are just too good to stop trying to use them.
They key is patience. Wait until that frog is completely underwater before setting the hook. Otherwise you'll probably just rip the frog away from the bass. I actually have really good hookups with every other frog I own. It's hard to learn to give it a second before ripping that line, but it really helps.
I remember being in high school at a friend's house, we were having a popsicle near his pond .I through the little wooden stick in the pond , a little bass came up and tried to pull it down it finally let go and the stick floated up
7:18 Sammy is the best. Dude youre insane. I can show you 100 giant river smallmouth on that lure. And it’s meant to be finesse and fast , it walks tight because you fish it fast, but if you kick it enough slack and work it really slow it walks completely 180. This is my second comment and you’ve only gotten to bait #3 and dude you either don’t know how to I sort action or your using the wrong hardware… cuz the Sammy is fire
@LowBrowFishing personally the darker colors worked better for me but I caught both small and large mouth on everything but the straight brown. Weightless or with very very light bullet weights T rigged. I fish in northern Indiana and Michigan. I think the biggest was a 3.2 large mouth but I'd have to go back and look in my notebook. I had to use them on a hybrid 4/0 or 5/0 hook. If I used a worm hook or flipping style the gap wasn't big enough and the worm would ruin hookups.
Maybe I'll get them figured out one day. Like in the past, I'll keep using these baits and if I can start catching fish with them, I take them off the list.
6th Sense actually make some of my favorite crankbaits, but I can certainly understand where you're coming from. If you get some that just won' tune it can be incredibly frustrating!
I want to say the 6th sense juggle minnow. shaking it on a jighead, mid strolling, whatever you want to call it. catches me a lot of little white bass, but it seems largemouth don't mess with it. Not certain if i'm working it wrong, or if it's just a poor action. Also tried it on an underspin, a swim jig, and a chatterbait all recommended uses by 6th sense, and those presentations with it have resulted in zero bites.
It can be extra frustrating when you feel like a lure or technique should work. At some point I have to just put that one like that to the side and move on.
Thank you...with the cost of lures today, we SHOULDN'T have to modify them to catch fish...they should work out of the box. A small exception can be made in tuning a crank bait other than that...nahhh. Tight lines...
For the money you spend, you should get a good product. I'm still going to work with some of these baits and see how much of it was user error, but some of these were just garbage.
On that last popper frog lure, since you're not getting any hookups anyway, but you do seem to get good blowups with it, you should try hanging a couple of small trailer hooks off of each of the main hooks. Maybe some small treble hooks just small enough to not cause the bait to sink. Sounds like the fish are just short striking it. Those trailer hooks might turn things around for you.
I've heard a lot of guys are having problems with those. I guess they don't run straight and can be a pain to fish. I've never used one but I don't know if I would ever try those either.
@@LowBrowFishing I probably didn’t give it a fair shake, I fish exclusively at Dale Hollow at the deep end. So much water drops deep right off the shore into 50-60-100 + , I might try it again in the cold water, bass chasing shad / alewife in open water now or pinning against banks at 20-30 ft. Just hard to fish that deep with something like this.
Ditto! You can easily add a 3rd, 6th sense bait to your list. Hangover was biggest disappointment of the year for me. If Milliken is charged with any other crimes the Hangover should be a jailable offense 😂
You have had completely different experiences with baits than I have. The Boosa worm flat catches them everywhere I take it. Put it on a shakey head and hold on.
Lowbrow that is funny, the first worm you picked up work great in wading water. I use them when wading you don't need a long cast. Smallmouth eat them up.
As with the previous baits that made this list in year's past, I'll continue to work with them and see if I can get them to produce. I've actually taken baits off the "worst of" list, such as the Strike King Hybrid Hunter, when I get them figured out.
The key with frogs is patience. Most times anglers can try to set the hook too early and end up just pulling the frog away from the fish. If you can still see the frog, don't set the hook. With a good frog, I rarely miss a a fish. But even with that, the Vega frog misses, lol!
I missed seven in one day on a Vega Frog but I did somehow catch an 8-pounder and others after fixing the hooks. The problem is the angle of the hooks and how they go into the body of the Frog every time you set the hook so I fixed Mine by bending them out a little bit, it's not as weedless but it will help with hooking up
I gotta disagree with you on the click bait. First not a fan of Googan baits but the click bait is a chatter bait variant like how the hybrid hunter is a crank bait variant. I also thought the CB was garbage until I figured out their use. I can't explain here it will take too long. I'll do a video rebuttal to explain. Great video as usual keep em coming
I have tons of bladed jigs of different types and brands. I've fished them extensively and even have several videos on them. I can honestly say that in all the years I've been doing these videos that you are the first to ever say anything good about a Clickbait. But if you actually figured out a way to get that monstrosity of scaffolding and beads to actually work, then that's great. Thanks for watching!
Worst lure/technique for me over the last full year has been the finesse swimbait. Haven't ever caught a fish on it. Ever. I've tried it almost every time I've gone fishing this past year and I've averaged four or more days per week on the water. I've done really well with jigs, jerk baits, crank baits, drop shots, ned rigs, and spoons. But nothing ever on any finesse swimbait. 👍🇺🇸
It's a regular-sized frog. I have several that are much larger and catch plenty of fish. I have a few Spro frogs that are the same size and style that I've caught fish with. It's most certainly something about that frog. Also, if I'm fishing light cover or open water, I'm probably not going to need a frog. That's where I'm using a spook or a popper. Thanks for watching!
The problem 6 sense they copied a lot specially from Megabass all the bait and clothes that frog you show they try to make it like a megabass frog they never come close to megabass
I have much cheaper frogs that work way better. I have a couple of Scum Frogs that the bass just tear up and they cost me about half what that Vega frog did.
That's not a wiggle wart 😂Worst technique for me in '24 was the POS Yamatanuki.Rigged it exactly like "the pros" .Threw it in all types of cover in several decent lakes.NADA.Went back to old school and BAM !
What??? 🤣 Lucky Craft Sammy is THE greatest - and maybe the first - high-end topwater walking bait ever made. I've caught THOUSANDS of bass on them since the 90's. This is foolish...bye.
What was the worst lure or technique for you in 2024?
Whopper Plopper. Everyone catches on these things but me. I catch all day any season on a popper, but a whopper Plopper has landed me a small pickerel and nothing else. Seems pretty worthless to me.
@@mikeandrade586 I use a choppo 90 in gizzard shad and have caught a lot of bass. Funny how that works. I never caught a fish on a chatterbait yet and alot of people swear by them. It all depends if you ask me.
@@matthall8378 PB for the year(5.1) on a blue chatterbait. The really cheap 5 dollar one Z-man makes lol. And it's gotten me many other 4+ pounders. Try using a really small trailer like a TRD and do a lot of gun and run. I've noticed they usually take it first cast in an area.
@LowBrowFishing i actually have two worst lures i just can't get confidence in so therefore I haven't caught any fish on them. The chatter bait and the spinnerbait.
@@mikeandrade586 I have the original zman chatterbait in white and I added a zako style swimbait in ice minnow behind it. It looks awesome and I'd bite it 😂. I don't have any vegetation in my river though and people say it works great around grass. We got laydowns, rock and a silt bottom. Maybe I should try another color instead or a different trailer.
What the DUCK , Low brow. Merry Christmas from Picayune
Haha! Merry Christmas!
These videos are always great! I'm way more interested in baits I don't need to waste my money on!
Thanks for watching! I'm happy you liked it!
I had a bunch of jerkbaits years ago that the plastic molding around the eye the hooks attach to was not sealed tight. Water filled them up super fast and after a cast or two those jerkbaits sunk like a rock. So disappointing. Don’t even know how they made it to store shelves.
That can be very frustrating, especially when you consider the cost of fishing tackle. Oddly, though, I have a cheap Ozark Trails small squarebill the leaks and fills up with water. But in my case, it's a flaw that works in my favor as it's one of my favorite winter baits because of how small it is and how much deeper it can get.
6:27 not all surface baits “float” some you actually have to fish and impart the action.. the action on the spider is the profile itself and the legs. It’s meant for throwing to specific targets and getting bit on the fall or shortly after. They’re good in marsh’s and ponds. Not my preferred lure at all. And LH makes a lot of trash. But they’re applicable in some situations
Thanks for sharing!
Some of these I've never heard of. Now I know why. Great content as always LB!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Interesting change of pace. I love it.
Thanks for watching! I'm happy you liked it!
Ah, the Sammy! I thought it was just me, but I can’t get mine (size 85) to walk consistently either. I walk other baits effortlessly that are a fraction of the cost and I really like other Lucky Craft products. (I also never caught squat on the Berkeley Dime this season.)
I also like Lucky Craft. But the Sammy can be frustrating!
I'm so glad you mentioned crankbait tracking! Most guys don't have a clue about how to get a crankbait to run straight. As you said, gentle tweaks are all you need. I have never bought a new crankbait that didn't need at least some tuning.
Yeah, crankbaits almost always need some tweaking before they're ready to go.
Never needed to tune a Rapala or Spro, never had a Strike King run straight out of the box
Great list LowBrow yeah the 6th Sense worm caught me no Bass either thanks for the video bud 👍🏻
I'm still going to work with them and see what happens. Thanks for watching!
The duck looks like a Christmas tree ornament. Good video.
I can see that. Thanks for watching!
I complete with the low to know hook ups on the frog baits and not just the one you spoke but all the other similar baits like it. I have not given up on them though as I am going to experiment with some trailers hooks I have in mind in hopes of increasing my hookup rates as these things in my opinion are just too good to stop trying to use them.
They key is patience. Wait until that frog is completely underwater before setting the hook. Otherwise you'll probably just rip the frog away from the bass. I actually have really good hookups with every other frog I own. It's hard to learn to give it a second before ripping that line, but it really helps.
I grew up throwing Rebel lures and love a pop r. But I can see why the cheaper ones don't work.
Sometimes those bargain bin baits are in the bargain bin for a reason!
Very nice format! Well done…
Thanks so much!
I remember being in high school at a friend's house, we were having a popsicle near his pond .I through the little wooden stick in the pond , a little bass came up and tried to pull it down it finally let go and the stick floated up
Bass are curious creatures. A good lure or technique takes advantage of that curiosity.
Great choice!! I was thinking that one or the spider. Stay Safe & God Bless!! 🤠👍
It was close! Hard to decide because there were a few that gave me fits!
7:18 Sammy is the best. Dude youre insane. I can show you 100 giant river smallmouth on that lure. And it’s meant to be finesse and fast , it walks tight because you fish it fast, but if you kick it enough slack and work it really slow it walks completely 180. This is my second comment and you’ve only gotten to bait #3 and dude you either don’t know how to I sort action or your using the wrong hardware… cuz the Sammy is fire
Thanks for watching!
I have had the exact same issue on the Rebel deep wee-R crankbait. VERY frustrating!
I have several older ones from decades past that don't have that problem. I honestly just think it's a "budget bait" thing.
I caught a ton of bass on the boosa worm around timber this year fished t rigged. July through September 1-10ft depth.
Hopefully I'll catch some fish on them!
@LowBrowFishing personally the darker colors worked better for me but I caught both small and large mouth on everything but the straight brown. Weightless or with very very light bullet weights T rigged. I fish in northern Indiana and Michigan. I think the biggest was a 3.2 large mouth but I'd have to go back and look in my notebook. I had to use them on a hybrid 4/0 or 5/0 hook. If I used a worm hook or flipping style the gap wasn't big enough and the worm would ruin hookups.
I caught several bass with the same boosa worm you had on a dropshot at the big lake in Wiggins. Matter of fact I have one tide on now
Maybe I'll get them figured out one day. Like in the past, I'll keep using these baits and if I can start catching fish with them, I take them off the list.
I have 6 sense crankbaits that do the circle the wagon retrieve that you cannot tune, pisses me off and no more 6 sense for me.
6th Sense actually make some of my favorite crankbaits, but I can certainly understand where you're coming from. If you get some that just won' tune it can be incredibly frustrating!
I want to say the 6th sense juggle minnow. shaking it on a jighead, mid strolling, whatever you want to call it. catches me a lot of little white bass, but it seems largemouth don't mess with it. Not certain if i'm working it wrong, or if it's just a poor action. Also tried it on an underspin, a swim jig, and a chatterbait all recommended uses by 6th sense, and those presentations with it have resulted in zero bites.
It can be extra frustrating when you feel like a lure or technique should work. At some point I have to just put that one like that to the side and move on.
Thank you...with the cost of lures today, we SHOULDN'T have to modify them to catch fish...they should work out of the box. A small exception can be made in tuning a crank bait other than that...nahhh. Tight lines...
For the money you spend, you should get a good product. I'm still going to work with some of these baits and see how much of it was user error, but some of these were just garbage.
I'd say jerkbaits but idk
On that last popper frog lure, since you're not getting any hookups anyway, but you do seem to get good blowups with it, you should try hanging a couple of small trailer hooks off of each of the main hooks.
Maybe some small treble hooks just small enough to not cause the bait to sink.
Sounds like the fish are just short striking it. Those trailer hooks might turn things around for you.
That would definitely get more hookups for sure, but it would take away what makes a frog weedless.
Maybe tie on a T-rigged worm as a trailer, and use the frog like a popping cork.😉
Awesome list! I had a feeling what #1 was!
That lure was definitely something else, lol!
Hangover swim bait
I've heard a lot of guys are having problems with those. I guess they don't run straight and can be a pain to fish. I've never used one but I don't know if I would ever try those either.
@@LowBrowFishing I probably didn’t give it a fair shake, I fish exclusively at Dale Hollow at the deep end. So much water drops deep right off the shore into 50-60-100 + , I might try it again in the cold water, bass chasing shad / alewife in open water now or pinning against banks at 20-30 ft. Just hard to fish that deep with something like this.
Ditto! You can easily add a 3rd, 6th sense bait to your list. Hangover was biggest disappointment of the year for me. If Milliken is charged with any other crimes the Hangover should be a jailable offense 😂
You have had completely different experiences with baits than I have. The Boosa worm flat catches them everywhere I take it. Put it on a shakey head and hold on.
I'm going to keep working with them. If I start to catch fish with those worms, they'll get bumped from the list. That's how I do it with any bait.
Lowbrow that is funny, the first worm you picked up work great in wading water. I use them when wading you don't need a long cast. Smallmouth eat them up.
As with the previous baits that made this list in year's past, I'll continue to work with them and see if I can get them to produce. I've actually taken baits off the "worst of" list, such as the Strike King Hybrid Hunter, when I get them figured out.
I have to agree about the frog baits . I fish waters that have pickerel and they put more holes than a screen door in them .😟
We have some pickerel here. I am not a fan. Toothy little buggers mess up everything!
Not many frogs have great hookup ratio. I hardly fish them anymore.
The key with frogs is patience. Most times anglers can try to set the hook too early and end up just pulling the frog away from the fish. If you can still see the frog, don't set the hook. With a good frog, I rarely miss a a fish. But even with that, the Vega frog misses, lol!
@LowBrowFishing Since the Vega gets bit so much, can't you modify it, maybe based off a frog that you hook up with, to improve it's performance?
I missed seven in one day on a Vega Frog but I did somehow catch an 8-pounder and others after fixing the hooks. The problem is the angle of the hooks and how they go into the body of the Frog every time you set the hook so I fixed Mine by bending them out a little bit, it's not as weedless but it will help with hooking up
The problem is, if I have to do all that work just to get the thing to have a better hookup ratio; I have other, better, frogs I can use instead.
@LowBrowFishing it's something you can do if you've already bought the frog of wasting a 10-dollar frog and it takes 5 Seconds
I love my Sammi!
Some guys really like them, but a friend told my the size I use (the 70, I think it is) has problems and often doesn't work well.
I gotta disagree with you on the click bait. First not a fan of Googan baits but the click bait is a chatter bait variant like how the hybrid hunter is a crank bait variant. I also thought the CB was garbage until I figured out their use. I can't explain here it will take too long. I'll do a video rebuttal to explain. Great video as usual keep em coming
I have tons of bladed jigs of different types and brands. I've fished them extensively and even have several videos on them. I can honestly say that in all the years I've been doing these videos that you are the first to ever say anything good about a Clickbait. But if you actually figured out a way to get that monstrosity of scaffolding and beads to actually work, then that's great. Thanks for watching!
@@LowBrowFishing well like anything else it could just be location. Maybe it works here and not there
Surprised because 6 th sense are normally very good products
I have many 6th Sense baits of all types and I really like them. Sometimes they just miss the mark, as with any company.
I've got to say for me it's the lunkerhunt spider
I'm not a fan of that thing either!
That. Duck caught you. !!!! 😆😆😆
Probably. But I have seen other anglers catch fish on it. Not many, but a few. I was intrigued.
I caught a couple on the Duck, just to say I did LOL. Not my first choice for a topwater tho
My vote for click bait would be the Hellraizer from zman. Never caught anything on it...
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention those. I haven't tried one, myself, but I am both curious and suspicious.
Headbanger Spitfire looks great in Ad videos but is unusable.
I'm not familiar with those, I'll check them out.
Worst lure/technique for me over the last full year has been the finesse swimbait. Haven't ever caught a fish on it. Ever. I've tried it almost every time I've gone fishing this past year and I've averaged four or more days per week on the water. I've done really well with jigs, jerk baits, crank baits, drop shots, ned rigs, and spoons. But nothing ever on any finesse swimbait. 👍🇺🇸
It can be tough when you hear about how a good a presentation or lure is but you just don't see the results for yourself.
That frog is Huge. There hitting it from the side. I’d bet open water. Light cover. Hang a troubled hook on it some how. Try that.
It's a regular-sized frog. I have several that are much larger and catch plenty of fish. I have a few Spro frogs that are the same size and style that I've caught fish with. It's most certainly something about that frog. Also, if I'm fishing light cover or open water, I'm probably not going to need a frog. That's where I'm using a spook or a popper. Thanks for watching!
I didn’t catch a thing on the Boosa! Wasted my money.
I'm going to keep trying, but so far, not a thing!
The Googan Clickbait is the biggest piece of shit lure of all time 😂.
It is certainly not a good bait.
The problem 6 sense they copied a lot specially from Megabass all the bait and clothes that frog you show they try to make it like a megabass frog they never come close to megabass
I have much cheaper frogs that work way better. I have a couple of Scum Frogs that the bass just tear up and they cost me about half what that Vega frog did.
It seems like there's always so new fangled hunk of junk for fishermen to waste their money on.
It's hard to resist a good shiny!
Usually if it looks super realistic or like a gimmick I don't buy it. Ive learned the kiss method works best. Keep it simple stupid! 😂
Most of the time, simple is the best way to go!
That's not a wiggle wart 😂Worst technique for me in '24 was the POS Yamatanuki.Rigged it exactly like "the pros" .Threw it in all types of cover in several decent lakes.NADA.Went back to old school and BAM !
Just a slip up. I haven't tried the Yamatanuki baits, but they do kinda interest me.
One of my best baits last year. Use an Owner unweighted 4/0 Twistlock hook and don't over work it. Great skipping bait
lol i caught a 3 pound bass on the clickbait
You are the only person I've ever heard of that has caught a fish on one of those atrocities. I might try again some day. But I'm just burnt on them.
@LowBrowFishing i know that's why I think it's so funny. If I could upload a picture, I i would show you
@@alexrhodes6732 I’ve also caught several LMB on the Clickbait, several different colors also 🤷♂️
What??? 🤣 Lucky Craft Sammy is THE greatest - and maybe the first - high-end topwater walking bait ever made. I've caught THOUSANDS of bass on them since the 90's. This is foolish...bye.
Thanks for watching!