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Soft Bait Lures, sometimes referred to as soft body lures, are lures rigged from a soft plastic, a single hook or jig head – sometimes with a weight.
Soft Baits Lures are important as they are:
Frog lures are surface contact lures known for mimicking a frog and are weedless lures commonly used to target largemouth bass in floating/matted grass. Unlike most soft bait lures, frog lures are typically pre-rigged/molded with a double hook.
Toad Lures, sometimes called a soft plastic frog or a frog soft bait, or a buzz frog are surface contact lures primarily known for the use of use of a toad soft plastic which provides a weedless frog looking soft plastic with kicking leg motion that provides vibration and a wake similar to Buzzbait. Some refer to toad lures as a heavy cover buzzbait with a more subtle lure action good with no wind/waves.
Jighead Minnow Lures, sometimes called damiki rig, hover strolling, mid-strolling minimal contact lures known for a very subtle natural looking minnow-style and balanced jig head and soft jerkbait plastic combinations that rest horizontally. Jighead minnows are also known for slow fishing deep and for targeted suspended bass. Some suggest an effective lure when using forward facing sonar.
Alabama Rigs are minimal contact lures known to look like a small school of bait fish with pulsating and flash lure action typically produced by its multiple soft swimbait and blades. It is also known for being restricted by some local fishing regulations and restricted or banned from some bass fishing tournaments.
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.
Drop Shot lures are bottom contact lures known for keeping the soft plastics off the bottom generally from 1 to 3 feet and for their subtle, weightless, natural looking, suspended forage-like lure action. Drop shots are generally, but not always, used for fishing slow and fishing deep.
Texas Rig Lures are bottom contact lures known for their weedless set up called texas-rigged, for targeting cover, often heavy cover, and the versatility of soft plastics that can be used. It is also known for its versatility of lure weights from no weight to over 1 oz for punch casting.
Ned Rig Lures are bottom contact known for light weight, low profile, slow fishing, catch on the fall and for its typically using small vertical worm soft plastic.
Neko Rig Lures are bottom contact lures known for having a worm stand straight resulting in a tail-based worm-like lure action [NL]. Some suggest neko rig stand up presentation is good for soft bottom scenarios as well as hard bottom and most cover.
Carolina Rigs are bottom contact lures known as a natural presentation created by dragging a fairly heavy weight across the bottom with a soft plastic that follows some distance behind on slack line leader allowing the soft plastic to jumps and dart around nearby not on the bottom. Carolina Rigs can be fished at varying speeds, varying depths with a wide variety of soft plastics.
Wobble Heads, also commonly called a Swing Jig Heads, are bottom contact lures known for their erratic side to side lure action enabled by a single hook with a soft plastic that freely swings from the jig head when coming into contact with hard bottom and cover.
