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Cover Contact Lures have maximum contact when targeting cover, including: grass, rock, wood and docks.
Lure contact categories, albeit not a common categorization, helps understand the lure’s common location in the water column along with what the lure’s design enables it to contact. The four categories used are: surface contact lures, minimal contact lures, cover contact lures and bottom contact lures.
High Cover Contact Lures are important to:
Soft Swimbait lures are cover contact lures known for natural looking bait fish lure action and its rigging versatility with a jig head or a single hook.
Shaky Head Lures, also spelled shakey head, are cover contact lures (also bottom contact) known for its subtle, slow moving, low shaky, quiver lure action typically using a worm soft plastic. Shaky head is a light presentation, weedless set up and often used in grass cover.
Soft Jerkbait Lures, also called flukes, are cover contact lures known for their weedless setup and for mimicking wounded bait fish with it erratic, side to side, darting, jerking motion on a jerk retrieve or a dying bait fish as it slowly sinks on a slack line.
Bladed Jigs, sometimes referred to as a chatterbait or a vibrating jig, are cover contact lures known for their pulsing and wobble lure action produced by its vibrating blade. Bladed Jigs are also known for their flash, vibration and for covering water.
Swim Jigs, including casting jigs and skipping jigs, are cover contact lures known for their natural pulsing swimming motion lure action and their versatility for fishing most cover especially grass cover.
Spinnerbaits are cover contact lures known for their vibrating blades that spin above the skirt that make a thumping noise, for fishing shallow in low lure visibility especially wind/waves and using the burn retrieve in high lure visibility.
Finesse Jigs are cover contact lures known for natural looking small light subtle pulse lure action with a slow fall rate that keeps the lure in the strike zone longer than most skirted jigs. Finesse Jigs are also known as the smallest skirted jigs with a front pointing skirt that keeps the soft plastic trailer and hook pointed up making it a good wood cover lure including brush and generally used to target any cover.
Lipped Crankbaits, generally just called a crankbaits, a cousin to the lipless crankbait, are cover contact lures primarily known for its wobble based vibration lure action and as the only treble hooked lure designed to contact hard cover and hard bottom. Lipped crankbaits are also known for their manufactured maximum depths which can range from a few feet up to around 25 feet.
Blade Bates are cover contact lures known for shimming, vibrating lure action that is hopped in cold water temperature. Blade Baits don’t technically have a blade but are shaped somewhat like a blade with a weighted nose resulting in a vibration like a blade. Since blade baits are relatively heavy in relation to their size, they cast far distances when fished horizontally plus they can be jigged vertically. Lures design allows the lure to get deep quickly while fishing slow. Also known for being a heavy but small lure.
