10 Best Bass Baits Ever!

hey fellow youtubers rolling Martin here listen I've been I get a lot of your uh your requests and your your comments where the comments is what are your favorite lures now I travel all over the country and I've been a professional fisherman for a long long time and so I've seen a lot of changes in the way lures are categorized in other words 30 or 40 years ago it might have been a something like a hula popper but or a jitterbug or something really old but now there's a whole new line whole brand new fresh line of brand new laids baits and I'm gonna give you my top 10 now I'm kind of a power of fishermen I like to fish South Florida I like to fish the heavy cover the weeds the logs I like to fish heavy line I like to fish heavy rocks and logs and and weeds and and so I'm not that open water fisherman I'm more of the heavy cover power fisherman so that's telling gonna I'm gonna kind of bend towards talking about big fish in heavy cover whether it's the the stickups of Lake Mead in the back end or it says someplace in California some Clear Lake underneath a boat dock with a big fish it could be a place in Connecticut underneath the log of a beaver just had cut down it doesn't make any difference you're gonna find heavy cover and big bass all over the country everywhere that you look so I'm going to start with a top ten the top ten lures that I would really say you really need to be able to master and fish if you fish all over like I do start with a jerk bait hey this let's go down memory lane a little bit let's talk about something in jerk bait fishing that you might remember you might not remember and that is years ago there was the Rapala back in the 60s there was a Rapala and back in 76 the Rapala company came to me and said Roland will you work for us I was a fresh off the tournament trail and winning a few tournaments and they had me the first thing I had to work with was this number eleven Rapala and I looked at it I said this is a this is a jerk bait of some sort it's a floatin minnow and I said I don't know if I can catch fish on it or not I like to catch big fish I like to fish heavy cover but I don't know it I started taking this number 11 rapper here on Lake Okeechobee for example catching 7 & 8 9 pound bass I even caught on an 11 pound bass on this back about 35 years ago on that little bitty Rapala lure it was the most famous of all lures in fact they rented him out back in the 60s when they first came out with them they were only a few of them around and they came from they came from Finland and they were handmade and hand carved and hand tested and hand and tested in big tanks individually anyway these lures would rent for I don't know $25 a day you had to put like $100 deposit down there was such a demand on a Rapala back in the 60s that people would take the hundred dollar deposit and kit and keep the lure and it was costing them $100 back to 50 60 years ago so you can imagine what a craze this was well jerk baits have come a long ways and I still use the rap a little bit but I've kind of progressed a little bit later and now we say some of the other words I have I have a variety of laws like this bomber so actually that's a that's the belong a bomber that's a really really good jerk bait I started using there years ago at Lake Okeechobee and it's just fantastic battery for bass but but for a saltwater fish now here's a bomber that's also made on a special occasion for I think it's a special run of bombers that Steve Daniels kind of put me on this one there's a very popular lure for for swim baits and rather jerk baits on the top now there's another set of lures I have of a confinement is my they're my SPRO jerk baits now most recently one of the jerk baits that i've been using a lot is this Pro the Mike McClellan series it's really big a big-time deal there's also the mega bass jerk bait and basically I'm filling on a fairly slight rod with about fourteen pound test line I'm just basically just twitching it along on the top and just working it as a top water plug just almost the top order just a slow little jerk on the bottom you notice it just barely comes up and you can sew it mainly an open-water lure you thrown it in this case I'm just making a cache but but the point is it's a jerkbait and it's it's subsurface to some degree you can run it down a three or four feet and it's a it's a great big bass lure here in South Florida and it's a take-off again of the the original Rapala okay number 10 okay folks number nine number nine I I kind of rate a top water plug is a number nine type of lure as far as my repertoire fishing you see me use the walking baits like that one that's a zero spook type you see me using devil horses with propellers on the back you see me using little poppers like the pop are that's a very very effective lure but this is a walking bait is probably my favorite that's when I handmade I just wanna throw it out there and just see how just back and forth walk it back and forth just slow and easy just learn how to keep it walking back and forth with the walking movement that's the deal right there doesn't have to be perfect just have to be able to walk in a little bit like that sometimes you can stop it sometimes you can pause it but anyway that walking bait is probably the most effective for me for big fish here in the heavy cover throwing out the edge' lilies at the edge of grass beds work in that kind of water okay now along with that topwater plug we have this is like an evergreen looking thing with a little feather on the back it walks as well I have a whole bunch of lures that I made I have the ones that like a devil source of spinners and I just enjoy kind of fooling with lures okay crank baits I'm going to take you down memory int and I'm going to talk about a crank bait right now I have a crank bait tied on this isn't one that I've had anything to do with it's just one that I like it's a little n it's a medium-size crank bait it is good from Connecticut to California and say the 10 the 12-foot range is just a perfect thing and and basically a crank bait all you're doing is just throwing it out there I'm using a long rod with light lining just barely cranking it down kind of slow rolling it along and they just load up on it sometimes you can pause it and you can do all kind of things like that but basically it's uh it's just making the right long cast into the right area and just slowly just kind of just walking it down and just kind of just just slow cranking it along sometimes you can speed it up a little bit in the hot summer and just run it a little fast and stop it run it a little faster stop there's a lot of variations from cold water to hot water but taking me back memory lane let's talk about a lure that started me off on a lot of this cranking there's two lures here I want to talk about back in 1976 Rapala came to me and they said how about I will sponsor your television show and we'll have you help us with some lures and design some new bass baits in some some crank baits so llamó Rapala a grandson of laurie rapidly came over from finland he and Ron Weber they said oh ok Roland what can we design this design something so I got busy and I designed this plug it's called the fat wrap and it's we designed they're over 40 years ago it's a fat wrap and and it's still a good lure for today then they still actually sell this fat wrap the wrap ler does it's still a very popular this little I want to tell you what what this little color right here the crawdad color was absolute killer and when I used that same little crawdad color in a smaller size for smallmouth it was just an absolute dynamite smallmouth or I've never seen a better smallmouth floor well we started getting bigger and deeper with these uh fat wraps and now we got into really deep models to go down almost 20 foot deep with with light braid I could probably get this thing down almost to 18 feet deep or 16 at least they say they'll run sixteen and anyway there's a whole variety of these really deep plugs and they're all what we call the deep diving fat rap series that I designed hey I designed him 40 years ago well from there I don't use them that much anymore because I've been with other companies have been with SPRO for example I've been with others to other companies and I've used their products and well and and they work good too a crank bait to crank bait it's a matter of where you throw it and how you retrieve it how much would pounce this line that you have and and that type of thing that's really really my number seven choice my number six choice is a ChatterBait now let's talk about it shatter bait what's the chatter bait well if I can find some shadow baits I'll just show you some shadow base it's really a great great lure for the winter time down here in South Florida we catch a lot of fish on chatter baits in the winter time it's not so much a hot water bait it's more of a cold water bait and here's one of my favorites at all times I'll take this this pumpkin coloured ChatterBait this is the 3/8 of an ounce series I love it the 3/8 of an ounce series I throw it on about 17 pound fluorocarbon line hey that's a little swimming cinqo tale by Yamamoto what a combination there's been a lot of tournaments worn it all over the place every state in the country had been producing good fish when the water temperature slightly cool this ChatterBait remember 3/8 of an ounce that remember that little swimming tail that's a really good thing the Yamamoto makes the Zenko and they also make this swimming cinco tail and again any color will work for me as long as it's green pumpkin no the black works and the black and blue works and and the other colors will work as well even white in the springtime sometimes there's a shad situation and these are early spring and these same chatter baits with white it's a white color well sometimes really produce ok now while we're talking about chatter baits let's go right into spinner baits because big spinner baits and Shatter baits are a lot the same now a spinner bait going down memory lane again is something I've had my hand in you know for years and years we've had head lures like this and for example look at this that's a current model of the roller Martin big bass spinner bait but 40 years ago Rapala came to me and one of their divisions was blue fox tackle and blue fox tackles had rolling this make a big bass spinner bait for Lake Okeechobee and I'd been winning tournaments here on Lake Okeechobee and really doing well so we made to us the number 5 I have ill aids the number six blades is number seven plays we made the blue fox model Roland Martin big bass spinnerbait it for twenty years we sold those things and now they're not being sold anymore in the meantime I've gone to mega strike hey mega strike is taking the same name taking them basically the same design as my 40 year old Roland Martin big best man rate and they may make a bass bait now called Roland Martin big bass spinnerbait hey it's still around ok that's and that's it really really popular model that's the 3/8 7 ounce one I like the little double tails to put on there any color will work I like chartreuse and white I like chartreuse I like solid white and that happens to have a Colorado blade but some of them I have that have willow leaf blades basically there's about 3 or 4 ways to fish a spinnerbait if you're on Lake Okeechobee and you're on shallow grass beds I'm going to run heavy line and I'm going to throw it past the the the lily pads and we'll throw it past the logs and kind of I'll salt a lot of times to wake it on top watch this wake that I make watch this wig okay I get it right on top and there's a wake there's just it's right underneath the surface of the water it's making a wake and sometimes they'll hit it on a fast retrieve with the wake other times you have to what they call slow roll a spinnerbait I take the slim blade out there throw it out count it down three or four or five seconds and just barely reel it now when I'm barely reeling a lure like a spinnerbait it's called slow rolling because the blade is rolling around slowly and that's the slow roll technique now while I'm at it let me just show you another lure that I'm gonna throw on the same set basic situation I'm gonna throw on the same rod at the same time I'm gonna throw a buzzbait I don't know what buzz baton spinner bait it kind of different but you end up throwing a buzzbait spinner bait on about the same situation and that is I went to the big bass spinner bait company Bobby Urich and the mega strike people and we made the Cabot Ron those baton the Cabot Ron buzz bait it's real lightweight and I usually put a trailer hook on the end this happens to have a red blade this happens to be a quarter ounce of my favorite one now it happens to be black it was my favorite color I throw it on at least 20 pound fluorocarbon or monofilament is even my choice and I always try to use a trailer hook again it's a topwater lure but it's a spinner bait too and I'm throwing it kind of on the same spinner bait deal as uh as as the rider that I throw with the spinner bait it's pretty much the same combination of tackle and line and so again it's the roller Martin endorsed of bug bait hey I just use this because I like it I don't even even paid I just said put my name on the back I haven't even paid to do this I mean not really I mean I just he's a friend of mine I like the lure it's really really a great lure okay number five we're getting down into the big-time stuff now one of my favorite techniques for power fishing and the heavy cover and brush and South Florida steel is a frog now that's my son is that is a big deal these frogs this happens to be the SPRO frog I don't work for sparrow anymore I used to work for SPRO and they make a good frog I've done a lot of films with Dean Rojas the guy that created this bronze eye for all right here and of all the frogs in the market this bronze eye frog is my favorite I like that light color because I can watch it better that's called the jungle pattern is I've been the hooks out just a little teeny bit to get more a better penetration and also with Dean Rojas what we do we cut a 3/4 of an inch off the skirt just cut 3 that's like it came out of the package I just took out the pack but if we cut 3/4 of an ounce that's what how much skirt we end up with and basically all we do with the Frog this is for all it's a simple deal you just sew it on top of the weeds and stuff and just kind of work it slow and easy bunk bunk just right through all the way pads if it comes through just about anything I can fill it up in the bank I can throw it up in those weeds right there I can throw it away up in there and it's just it won't get hung it just is just I mean it's just fantastic and I throw it all in the weeds and brush and bad places the limbs and crawling along and pull it along and you'd be surprised with what comes out of that heavy rush I'm a big fish so I'm throwing on a heavy rod 65 pound braid now recently I found a new kind of frog it's really kind of cool this is a buzz frog look at this one and I've caught the fool out of this last couple weeks and this is a frog it looks like the the same size and body and hook arrangement as the SPRO frog but it has a little buzz tail you've heard of the whopper plopper and that's a great top order plug as well a whopper plopper has a tail like that watch this thing watch this thing come across the water this is a whopper plopper kind of deal throw it out there what's it look at look at the tail the tail is just kind of plopping along its just plopping along I can stop it it sits there like a frog I could move it a little bit I can sit say like a frog I can run it along and see how the tail just buzzes that's a buzz tail that's so cool that's a buzz tail you stop it again there's eat it up I've really done well on this type of frog so that's really really a hot choice now you're talking about big fish you're talking about some big powerful fish hitting hitting frogs that's a big time ok number 5 was the Frog ok what's number four well number four you're gonna have to call a big bass jig now this is my flippin combination this is for South Florida I'm throwing it in the lily pads I'm flipping it in the heavy a moss and hydrilla I'm throwing it by any kind of brush or log or any kind of really heavy cover I'll using anywhere from 50 from 50 this 65 pound braid I'm using a good Yamamoto type of tail I'm using anywhere from a half ounce to a 1 ounce even a 1 and a quarter ounce in the real heavy flippin cover now with the jig a jig I do as a lot of things I'll flip it like this like that right into the edge of the of the heavy cover and that's one way to flip it okay the other way is that get right into the pitch it right into the heavy brush like right in the lily pads just right in there okay that's that's a great way of catching fish in the heavy cover but you can also take a jig can I do this a lot on the grass lines that throw it to the edge of the grass lines and just let it sit down this happens to be a half ounce model you get it on the bottom this happens to be a 50 pound braid and I just kind of crawl it along because it emulates a crawfish crawfish are one of the number one food sources summer or fall or winter anytime you'll have bass eating crawfish everywhere in the country all year long so that's what it looks like looks like a crawfish and my favorite colors are of course this this black and blue seems to be my favorite color but a good choice is a green pumpkin as well jigs catch big fish back in 1980 I had a run of tournaments I on a jig I won three bas s tournaments in a row on a jig so that was about my most successful career moment when in three big giant tournaments in row all on a jig so you can see it so it's a big bass combination okay what's the number three lure this is probably the lure that I've caught the most big fish on this year than any other lure that I have in my whole arsenal of tackle and this is a swim bait this is a actually it's a heart tail grub a four and a half inch heart tail grub by Yamamoto it's four and a half inches long I'm running on a great big seven aught cook with a screw that's a screw in design I've just screw that screw the hook in into the worm that's a screw thing right there and I put a little bit of an eighth of an ounce lid weight again or heavy braid I'm running at least fifty sometimes 65 pound braid and the way you work a swim bait is easy some people like to work it right on top I don't like to work it on top that's why I had the weight on there I like to let it down three or four feet I'm just kind of rolling along slow and easy sometimes I'll come back to cover like that I'll drop it to the bottom and just let it hit the bottom start to reel again I'm holding my rod up at kind of us worm strike angle where if I get a strike I can drop the rod go forward like a plastic worm and set the hook that way and I catch so many beautiful bass on a swim bait this has to be just really the way to go if you look at that bait that that bait has a really really good swimming action that tail is really really fantastic now there's three or four other really good swim baits on the market I want to show you a couple of them this is the gambler' series it's called the Big Easy it's about the same size as the Gila motor heart tail here's one by Bass Pro Shop it's a take off of the of the the high tech the context the context company kind of started a lot of these of swimbaits and here's a four point eight series Kai tech it's pretty much the same size as that yamamoto it runs really well it's about the same dimensions the tail works really well it's just a great combination so all these colors are good I kind of try to emulate the shad patterns okay we're getting close now we're down to lure number two what do you think that lure number two is hahaha let's go to number two real quick my number two lure is a lipless crankbait let me just show you this one this happens to be the Arouca shad and this luka shad is a lipless crankbait and going back to when i started to work for Sproat to launch the company i started working for SPRO they said well Roland you've worked with rap Lynn you've worked with these other people what can you do for us I said I can design you a good lipless crankbait so back about 20 years ago I designed this fro Arouca shad for the SPRO corporation they still use it today as one of their best selling lures and maybe their best selling move and what it is it's like a rattle trap and I don't have to tell you what a rattle trap is the rattle trap has just been famous for ever and ever anyway I came up with this deal here and it's it's a little heavier than the half ounce rattle trap this Arouca shad is what they call the 5/8 ounce rattle trap and what I do with that one is again I throw it out and sometimes in a hot summer time we just really didn't fast as can be they want a fast moving bait in the summertime because there's hot and they'll chase stuff real quick in the winter time I might take this a murukku shad throw it out let it sink all the way to the bottom let it go sink out all about them and just kind of slow roll it again just kind of run it slow and easy again those the wintertime Coldwater fish or a lot more lethargic and they want a slower moving lure but lipless crankbait catches him in the winter time so people would come down to Lake Okeechobee in that ask me they'd say Roland I need to catch a fish how can I catch them I'd say well here's a plastic worm and here's a rattle trap or in Ruth who shared this case and I'd say fit throw it in the edge of the grass beds go out the closer Channel go to the edge of the joint grass the pepper grass whatever kind of grass there is and just just throw it there all day long water could be two feet deep it could be five feet deep didn't make a whole lot of difference there's fish on the edge of the grass beds and they'll hit a lipless crankbait all year long it's just a really really solid solid lure it's a lure that works everywhere in the United States I don't care if it's clear water did you order cold water hot water a little ascribe fate is a golden golden opportunity to catch bass okay what's the number one lure what's the number one lure of all times what is is if I just had one lure two fish what would it be what what could it possibly be that would be better than these other nine that I've showed you it's gonna be the five-inch Cinco and a 297 green pumpkin color the number one lure of worldwide it's outsold every other plastic worm ever it's the number one lure the number one bass catching lure in the entire world period nothing's ever come close to the fish that this Cinco has caught that's the five inch series two ninety seven there's other colors that I like and this happens to have a little bit of an eighth ounce weight it happens to a little four or aw gee hook I'm running on some light braids right by the dock and just just let it sit there and just let it sit there right on the ambush point and as soon as you think the fish is looking at it maybe they just twitch it just a little teeny bit and you catch bass all the time everywhere all time of years the number one lure of all times I can't ever you can even swim it there's just so many ways to fish the Cinco they just tell you a little story about when I first got to working with Gary Yamamoto over 20 years ago about 25 years ago he came down to clue us and he had some prototype little cinco's like this and he said rolling what do you think of this lure I said Gary let me just tell you that's that's not gonna make it that's that's gonna be a terrible lure he said why it really catches fish I said I don't care if it catches fish it's ugly this is just an ugly lure just nobody's gonna buy it they're gonna look at that thing and they're gonna say it's just terribly ugly I don't want to buy it it doesn't have a tail of Wiggles it it has no contours it has no no flash it doesn't wiggle much it doesn't do anything it's just nothing it's a nothing lower and it's not gonna sell how wrong have I been I mean it's been the number one lure of all times and that's just that's just the start of things connecting to California from Japan and all over East and West Africa every place that there's a bass in the whole world we were out in Portugal I was with Gary fish in Portugal and Spain on some international tournaments everybody over there was using the cinco in Europe so that's how good a lure it is so folks that's just my top ten and again it's um I'm looking at the power fishing angle I can do another top ten possibly on lighter tackle and lighter Lakes and a more open water conditions and there's other lures to use don't get me wrong but that's my top ten so thanks for watching I post every Wednesday at about six o'clock and I post every Sunday at about six o'clock I appreciate you watching and please subscribe thank you

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Length: 25min 22sec (1522 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 04 2019