The Ultimate Lure Selection Chart

May 03, 2017 5 Comments

Today is just a quick post with something useful that I wanted to share with you - an awesome lure selector chart that will help you select the right lure for the right circumstances.

Season	Water Temp	Clear Water	Muddy Water
Winter	30-40	Hair Jigs, Jigging Spoons, Float-n-Fly, grub	slow spinnerbait, crankbait, jigs
	40-50	jigging spoons, jerkbaits, lipless crankbaits, finesse crankbaits, blade baits, grubs	shallow crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, vibrating jigs, spinnerbaits
	50-55	Jerkbaits, lipless crankbaits, shallow crankbaits, slow rolled spinnerbaits, jigs	shallow crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, vibrating jigs, spinnerbaits, jigs
	55-60	jerkbaits, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, plastics, jigs, buzzbaits, swimbaits	flipping plastics, shallow crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, spinnerbaits, vibrating jigs, creature baits
Spring	60-65	jerkbaits, plastics like lizards, craws, tubes, creatures, jigs, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, some topwaters, buzzbaits,	spinnerbait, jig, crankbait, buzzbait, plastics,
	65-70	topwaters, plastics, frogs, jigs, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits, swimbaits	plastics, jigs, crankbait, buzzbait, spinnerbait, frogs
Summer	70-80+	topwaters, frogs, plastics, deep diving crankbaits, spinnerbaits, football jigs, flipping jigs, drop shot, jigging spoons, swimbaits	frogs, buzzbaits, shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits, deep diving crankbaits, football jigs, big worms and plastics,
	75-70	shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, smaller worms, topwaters, buzzbaits, frogs, punching baits	shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, smaller plastics, buzzbaits
Fall	70-65	lipless crankbaits, shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, topwaters, offshore jigs and worms, drop shots, frogs, buzzbaits	lipless crankbaits, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, worms, frogs, buzzbaits
	65-55	buzzbaits, shallow crankbaits, jigs, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, worms, blade baits	buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs
	55-50	blade baits, jigging spoons, jigs, spinnerbaits, lipless crankbaits, finesse crankbaits, some topwater	shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, lipless baits
	50 -	blade baits, jigging spoons, jigs, spinnerbaits slow rolled, lipless crankbaits, jerkbaits	slow spinnerbait, crankbaits, look for clean water