BP"s 2024 Bass Lure of The Year

 

With Platte Lake in its second year of recovery from the 22/23 Winter Kill and me struggling to stay on the bass in Sullivan, it made for the most challenging bass fishing I've experienced in years.  There was a period from the MN Fishing Opener to when the rice came up in early June when the Houdini-colored Z-Man Turbo FattyZ was 🔥. Then the bite just collapsed when the shiner minnows moved deep. I caught the vast majority of 153 bass on the FattyZ in that window. It was the only lure I caught a hundred bass on for the year. I did catch 258 bass on frogs and toads, but that was spread out over about 20 different lures. Here is to hoping that bass fishing in 2025 improves.

BP's 2023 Top Lure: Snagproof Bobby's Perfect Frog

After two years of absolute dominance by ice fishing lures, my sore back in early 2023 ensured the rule of panfish lures would come to an end. In 2023, Bobby's Perfect Frog was back on top again; It also held the top spot in 2018 and 2020. I lost 10 Bobby's Frogs in 2023, mostly due to pike theft, but I did have an empty Power Clip come back a couple of times as well. 

My supply of "The Sparrow" color is getting low, so this may or may not be the last year the Bobby's Perfect Frog comes out on top. 

 

2021 Bass Lure of the Year: Bobby's Perfect Frog

 

The Teckel Whacker and Mad Maxx came out of the gate strong, but by the time frog fishing for the year was over, Bobby's Perfect had run them down and run them over.  The craw tube came in 2nd place when my Jumpin' Bullhead totals were added to my total. Bobby's Perfect edged out the craw tube by 1 fish.

Here is my list of double-digit bass lures this year

Jumpin Bullhead double-digit list: