Lures Used

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Lures used for smallmouth and largemouth bass include a combination of plastics, topwater, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and jigs.

Plastics
Zoom Super Fluids (Shad patterns)
Strike King 4 inch Tubes green and brown pumpkin seed or smoke gray
Zenko's in 4 or 5 inch in natural colors
Zoom Finnese Worms (Shaky head or Caroline Rigged) green pumpkin seed, brown pumpkin seed or junebug

Topwater (Sam prefers shad pattern on topwater lures)
Hedden Pop Rs
Hedden Zaro Spooks
Lucky Craft Sammys

Crankbaits
Bandets 200 series (crawfish patterns / shad patterns)
Bandets 100 series (shad patterns)
Bill Lewis Rattle Traps (shad patterns 1/2 ounce model in Spring - 1/4 ounce in Fall)
Bill Norman RD 22 chartruse blue and Tennessee shad - June, July and August

Spinnerbaits
Srike Zone Ledgebuster 1 and 1-1/2 ounce in Spring steep points (shad colors)
Strike Zone 1/4 to 1/2 ounce shallow water (Spring spawning) chartruse/white, white and chartruse

Jigs and Trailers
Homemade bear and deer hair jigs
Strike Zone King 1/4 to 1/2 ounce (large zoom chunk) green and brown pumpkin, black and blue, brown and black (netbait paca chunk)

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