Get any group of bass anglers together and ask them what their favorite bass baits are. Depending on the lakes and areas each angler fishes, the answers are going to be as varied as the fishing business. There are several baits every angler has or at least once had in their tackle boxes.

Almost any tackle box is not complete unless there are Zoom baits in the box. Several colors are very popular but these are the top sellers, red shad, pumpkinseed and green pumpkin. And the baits can be worms, lizards and jigs of all sizes and shapes. Zoom also makes a very popular array of small finesse baits for finicky fish and spotted bass called finesse worms. Rig up a Zoom bait and bass will bite one. Every anglers grew up in the soft plastic age fishing with Tom Manns Jelly worms. A small company that started in the kitchen is now a world wide manufacturer of all sizes and colors of the original Jelly worms. The worms are still cooked with all kinds of scents including grape and cherry.

Any bass angler that has ever used a floating lure or a crank bait owns Shad Raps. The original floating Shad Raps and still hand made and each one is individually hand tuned before it goes in the box. The number 5 and the number 7 Shad Raps in the top water baits, suspending baits and the crank baits comes in lots of colors that are legends in the fishing world. Silver black back and baby bass are favorites. A few years ago, Rapala the maker of Shad Raps discontinued the pearl chartreuse back baits and the up roar was heard world wide. Now these popular colors are back in the line.

The Rebel Pop R was almost discontinued by the Pradco Company several years ago. The Bass Anglers Sportsmans Society tournament trail has a renowned professional angler fishing the trails by the name of Zell Rowland. Rowland lives in Texas and was sanding down old Pop R's and repainting each bait himself and then adding high quality hooks to the old baits. Guess what, he was winning tournaments. Secrets are hard to keep and Zell sold his "new" colors and his ideas on these baits to Pradco. Another extremely popular for bass fishing is the Rat L Trap. Everyone owns some Rat L Traps and they used to make only sinking lures. Now this hard plastic lure comes in suspending and even floating styles. The Professional Rat L Traps are more than $6.00 each, but is they catch fish they will catch anglers.