>>380426I'm presuming you mean salt water bass if not then you might want to ignore my whole post.
I have been fishing mainly with soft plastic worms and tubes. I use mainly the glittering senko worms pictured top segment of tackle box (if posted right way up) I found brown, dark green and white seem to work well. Also the Slu-go worms are very good and the fiiish black minnows. Probably the best overall I've used is the megabass Xlayer in Abu colour. These all tend to be the more expensive soft plastics but I feel like its hard enough to catch with plastics so if your buying worms that are known to be "bass slayers" then you are in with a fighting start, rather than just chancing it with anything.
I've just started to buy a few of the more expensive hard lures too as I've never cought a single fish on any of my cheaper hard lures. I've tried poppers, diver and surface lures and not even a tickle. So just shelled £20 on a Japanese shoreline shimmer! Better not get that fucker snagged first cast!
From what I hear there are no secret lures but if you have a good selection you can try a quite a few in one session and sometimes when you think there are no fish a quick change of lure will give you an immediate bite first cast into where you've been trying your other lures. I've been fishing with a friend who'd never fished before and set him up with some red isome ragworm look a likes and while I was catching nothing with my senkos and paddle tails he was pulling up a lot of wrasse one every cast, I tried his spot and still nothing as the fish weren't interested in my lures.
It's also worth fishing the same spot in a lot of different weathers, tide states and again with different lures. The spot I fish at the moment looks like prime bass territory, but so far this year I've only caught 1 bass from it. There's a good phone app called fish tales which will let you add catches (photos) and along with lure caught with, time, weather and GPS location.
