Creature Bait Stats for Bass Fishing

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The creature baits category represents the hodge podge of soft plastics that aim to mimic the natural forage of bass. These baits can be rigged a variety of ways and can imitate things such as baitfish, insects, reptiles, and more.

Perhaps owing to the diversity of choices in this bait category, the data does not show any particular periods of higher efffectiveness for create baits. However, we do see that more anglers opt to use creature baits around the spawn season as these baits end up accounting for more than 15% of the bass caught in March.

Here are stats for the creature bait based on real bass fishing reports collected by Basscademy:

Here are the top creature bait products and colors used to catch bass:

Rank	Product	Color

3	Bandito Bug 6 Pack Bulk Bundle	Black Blue Flake
4	Zoom Baby Brush Hog	Clear
5	Rage Tail Craw	Junebug

Seasonal Stats

Bait effectiveness changes with the seasons. Here's a look at the number of "fish caught per angler" for the creature bait in each month:

Species Stats

We can also drill down into the effectiveness of the creature bait on a per species basis, and examine just how effective the bait is when targeting different types of bass: