20 Best Fall Lures For Bass (2023 Updated)

I absolutely love this little lure. I like to let it sit on top of the water and reel slowly to where it still stays above water. Some people like to fish it like a crank bait but i prefer to use it like a frog almost.

There’s something about top water bites that is so thrilling, and this lure produces that thrill. I’ve had sunfish absolutely destroy this bait. It’s a super fun lure to use, very easy. It has such a nice action in the water.

I’ve put friends onto nice sized fish who don’t even fish. My only issue with this bait is that the hooks get tangled in the line far too easily and takes all the action away from the bait. Even with that small issue this is one of my go to baits for small ponds or creeks.

The newer Crickhopper lures may be the same weight as older ones, but they don’t swim the same. These pull to the surface with faster retrieve while the older ones dove deeper the faster they were retrieved (to a limit, of course).

Otherwise they look the same. Don’t know what makes them different.

Have had lots of early morning ultralight topwater action with the Crickhopper. Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Redbreast Sunfish, Yellow Perch, Crappie, Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass (Up to 3 lbs), Carp.

Had some really big blowups. There is one issue with the bait. The front hook freqently crossed the line until I started to feather the line at the end of the cast. Must have bait for summer/fall.

Berkley choppo is nice. I alternate between the Choppo and River2sea. Choppo is slightly more affordable, especially when the stubborn Pike like to take souvenirs. Close to cover is where to fish these.

Have had strikes on a pause, a constant retrieve and just at the moment of touchdown. Nothing like a topwater strike to get the early AM or late evening cobwebs out! Both smallies and Largemouth, as well as Pike lov ethese babies!.

Best top water bait to come out in years. But has one major issue; the hooks are very weak and need to be changed before you use. Had a 6lb. 9oz largemouth blow up on one in a tournament. Fishing with light line due to ultra clear water.

Fish jumped like a smallmouth. When we got it in the net, it had 4 of the 6 hooks in its mouth and side. 3 of the hooks were bent 45 degrees toward straight. If it had come loose, it would have cost me big fish and $1500.

Overall a great competitor to the Whopper Plopper. I don’t notice any difference in bite ratio between the two. However color options are more limited with the Choppo, and the prop / tail is less durable.

But otherwise a great all round topwater bait. Highly recommended.

I bought this lure on a whim based on the fact that most of the fish in my local fishing spots feed on bugs, and this definitely looks like something fish would eat. For me, at least, it seems to need a few casts to “warm up”, I haven’t ever caught anything on the first cast, but it sure gets fish curious and eventually you will start cranking them in.

It seems like once a few of them commit to biting it turns into a feeding frenzy! I use this lure almost exclusively now when fishing for bluegill in local farm ponds, or just casting in at a new pond to see what it has in it.

It is fun to use and it delivers. I catch a variety of fish on it, including bluegill, crappie and bass. Seems like anything in the pond will take a pass at it. I use the yellow color throughout the year, and the fish respond well.

I would like to get a black version and see if the color has any effect on performance. I have had the best luck using a steady retrieve and keeping it about 1-2 feet deep. Once in a while they will hit it topwater when it is cast out, but that isn’t the norm in my experience.

The only drawbacks are that if it is dragged through weeds, the fluttering motion stops, and without the motion you can pretty much guarantee no bites. Also, with the front treble hook, sometimes it will snag the line when you cast it and stop the flutter of the lure until you untangle it.

That said, most of the fish I catch are snagged on the front hook, so I wouldn’t advise removing it. Neither of these are unique problems, just inherent drawbacks with using this type of lure. Overall, a great and productive lure for the money.

This is a good topwater bait I’ve used to pick off smaller bass waiting in cover for bugs to hit the water. I’ve had a school of young fingerling bass follow this in the water when cranking, but it’s too big for them to want to bite it.

However, I have caught a. 5-1lb. bass by casting this lure out, shaking it on the surface and then cranking it back in with a steady retrieve. Bass took the bait at the start of the crank! Fun bait, and very easy to use.

Would recommend for smaller pond bass fishing.

I purchased several of these to fish on the Suwannee River, they are awesome. The redbellies love them! The hit them hard, made fishing fun! Tonight’s supper caught with them…

I had someone tell me they were using one of these lures the past week here in north eastern NC and caught 8 large mouth in a hour. Typically this time of year im throwing spinner baits and creature baits for pre and spawning bass.

Well I got a torpedo at Walmart and gave it a try after all my normal baits were not producing after 3 hours of fishing. Ten minutes into using the Heddon Torpedo I hate a blow up like I’ve never seen, got the fish to the bank and was shocked.

I caught my new PB 7lb 7ounces thanks to this lure.

This are excellent lures for small fish, Bluegill, Sunfish and small Bass. Every once in a while a larger fish will take them. The “Frog”and “Bass” color schemes have worked best for me. Pair the Teeny Torpedo with a light spinning outfit, light line and go find a farm pond.

You will not disappointed.

Those of you who hear that these a really good at catching fishes, I am telling you, they are great! I never leave the house without one of these tied to one of my lines. These catch me more fish than using plastic lures.

I used to fish with plastic worms with great results, but nothing beats fishing top water. Lots of action! Now this all does depends on the body of water, location, and weather. I’ve fished in the same area during mid day and barely caught one Large Mouth Bass.

These lures work best early morning or late evening. If you fish on an overcast day, it works all day long. It is true that the hooks aren’t that great. I haven’t gotten around to changing any of mine out.

They work just find for me. Eventually I will change them to see if there is a difference. The propeller needs to be adjust accordingly. Not all of them work out of the box. They need to be tweaked a little to get working right.

I’ve had some propellers bend from Basses hitting the lure hard. I bought a variety of colors. Usually the brighter colors work best at most conditions. During a overcast day, I tried 3 different colors and caught fish equally on all 3 lures.

If you buy these lures in a 3 pack, you save a little!.

I am excited for the upcoming Walleye season. My fishing partner has 2 of these Bandit 200’s in spring craw/yellow. The action will trigger Walleye when nothing else does. We troll with about 95 – 105ft.

of 10lb diameter line and hit out marks on the GPS. Yeah, they seem to be the trick that brings in the fish. Now, I have 4 and might even give him 1 for letting me use his 2nd one. I definitely recommend these Bandit 200’s.

Bought this crankbait for a recent fishing trip and it outperformed all of my fishing buddies. It has a tight wobble and dives great. The spotted bass were killing it. I will be purchasing more of these in various colors and sizes.

I was using the chrome with blue back in the 300 size. BPS customer service & shipping issues were my only complaint. Would recommend only purchasing in-store as opposed to online due to these shipping issues.

I have caught so many different species of fish on Bandit 100-200 chartreuse shad. Pike in Canada, snook in Florida, crappie in Pennsylvania. It’s one of my confidence lures. I do a lot of trolling from a canoe in my home state of PA.

This bait catches fish always. When I tie on another crank bait and get no results. I tie on the Booyah one knocker Orr hard knocker and I start killing fish. I was throwing a Rattling Vibe crank bait for hours at this private lake.

I cot it off put on the green bootable one knocker. This is old color they dont make anymore. I caught three over two pounds a piece. I lost one I saw the fish I would guess between six or seven pounds.

I cannot be sure about the weight because he broke my line.

The Booyah Hard Knocker is an obvious copy of the original Heddon Excalibur Series, in the size 3/4 oz. , the XR75. With only a few bits of machinery and tooling along the software advancements and use of 3D printing a total replication of the Excalibur XR series could be reverse engineered to produce an EXACT copy of the XR75 that sells for upwards of $40.

00 ea. on ebay.

The first time I used this lure and took it to my local pond I caught 3 bass in a hour on a straight retrieve. Perfect size for finicky bass and nice color and rattle. I only knocked off one star because the red eye doesn’t stay on for very long.

My go to lipless crankbait! Casts a mile, covers water fast. Craw color is always a good choice.

I’ve used the full size and Jr while wading and drifting from a boat. One day had 11 speckled trout to 24” and 7 redfish on the Jr version, and have had back-to-back mid-twenty inch redfish on the full-sized.

Needs to be worked properly with short or slower (less vigorous) twitches than Super Spook or One Knocker.

I’m very familiar with this plug. I had a couple that I gave away to fish catching friends. While I was quick to receive 2 units from SWE (thanks for the customer support & follow through) I was quite disappointed with the lure’s coloration.

The factory Bone colored lures were really a taupe or beige color. Had I been in the store I would not have picked these units and gone with a different coloration like Bunker or baitfishy.

I bought this bait about a week ago in the 1/2oz speckled trout color. As the title says, this bait is really easy to walk. I fished my chugn spook on a 7ft fast action rod with 30lb braid and a 12ft mono leader.

After fishing it for an hour I actually found it harder to NOT walk the bait. You can hit it pretty much as hard as you want and it will still walk. You can make the bait do a larger aggressive walk or little wobble like a frog.

The only way to not walk this bait is to tap it too softly. Excellent product, can’t wait to take it somewhere else where there are fish.

This bait is awesome, it has a tight wobble but yet it will flat out catchem in any season. I always have one of these tied at all times. This bait, like I said catches them year around becuase of there wide range to cover water depths.

The only down fall I have with this bait is that it’s fragile. It’s great that it’s made of wood and it does rise back up but they need to work on the connection point, from the crank baits bill to the bait it’s self.

Stronger glue or screws or something.

Its a good lure, well made but the hooks will not last up in saltwater. Recommend changing the trebble hooks as this is a super lure in saltwater. Not to be used around heavy cover and snags but works well from a kayak or small boat for inshore pelagics and even some grouper.

Recommend you create a burley trail when running the lure.

This is a fish catching crankbait. As soon as it was hitting the water I was pulling fish after fish. I’ve used a color similar from another brand but it caught fish but most of the time I had to deal with it twisting around the hooks often.

As soon as I saw this color online I knew I had to have it because I knew it would catch fish and I mean big fish. I’m in love with Rapala because their crankbaits are one of the best one made. Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to see what color or colors are next.

I fish off the beaches and jetties in South Florida. I was at the Bass Pro and I noticed this red/white heddon lure. It looked pretty good to me so I purchased it and gave it a tryout. The first thing I noticed was how far this lure casts.

On retrieve I noticed that unlike my other surface poppers, this lure doesn’t give a huge splash and runs right at or just below the surface. Wow, the fish really love these things. The main problem I’m having now is actually landing some of the big fish I’ve hooked.

I’ve already lost three of these lures to very nice fish, one of them was a tarpon.

I picked these up for $2. 99 on sale. Rumor has it they’re the exact same Excalibur baits just rebranded by Booyah. These baits seem durable and are a steal for the price tag I got them at. They swim with a bit of a wider wobble similar to a strike king 2.

5 squarebill than compared to a 6th sense 100x that has a tighter wobble. Only problem I’ve seen is that they seem to not run true after just short periods of use. They run true out of the box but after a short time fishing they run left or right.

It’s a pretty easy fix by bending the line tie in the opposite direction but I’d like to see them run true for longer. Also, they only run left or right when burning them as fast as I can with a 7:1 ratio reel.

If I slow roll it or even retrieve medium speed they still run ok. Hooks are decent but not great. I didn’t feel the need to replace them out of the box but wouldn’t hurt in the future. Right now there are 5 basic colors.

I’d like to see more patterns released in the future. But overall these are killer baits for $2. 99 and you should stock up before the price goes up (assuming it eventually will from $2. 99).

I grabbed a few at the Spring Classic sale a couple of weeks back. Compared one side by side with an original XCalibur XCS100. Same shape, dimensions, body detail, etc. Weighed both on a digital scale, both identical @.

42 oz each, both equally shy of the advertised 1/2 oz. No biggie there as most bait brands round up to the nearest commonly used fraction. The hooks are slightly different from the original XCalibur, but still an okay hook for stock.

Not a top of the line hook but it will definitely stick. The one thing I can’t confirm 100% is how good they got the paint jobs to match as my only three remaining XCaliburs are Citrus Shad and I didn’t buy any of the Booyahs in that color.

From what I can tell from pictures, they seem to have got it fairly close though. Oh yeah, they do get bit too. fishing is still a bit slow here but I got one to commit to a Rayburn Red. It did run a bit to one side at first, but was easily tuned and ran straight the rest of the day in spite of banging off of everything I could throw it at.

Same action as the originals.

Great little bait that catches fish of all sizes. It deflects and bounces well off of hard cover and does pretty well coming through grass. Color and patterning hold up well. If you reel it too fast it does track to the left.

Overall a great bait I would buy again.

Open any bass lovers tackle box and chances are that you’ll see a variation of this bait, it’s a classic. I’ve caught more fish on this lure than I can remember, and it’s always fun to tie one of these on and watch it pop and churn out on the surface of the water.

It isn’t just for bass either, I’ve caught everything from huge pike and tiger muskie all the way down to crappie and yellow perch on these. Earlier today we went out to a local pond and the bite was slow.

I tied on a baby torpedo and an hour later I had boated 6 fish and missed 2, including a 3 foot pike and a 7 pound largemouth. My favorite color is fluorescent green crawdad, which is a firetiger version of the brown crawdad pattern.

The bullfrog and regular brown crawdad pattern also work well, but you really cant go wrong since the action gets the strikes more than the color most of the time. Cast it out, let it float for a bit, then give it a pop and let it sit again.

Repeat that back to the boat and always keep and eye out for strikes or your plug suddenly vanishing. If they want a more aggressive presentation you can pop it faster or reel it back steadily and let the blades churn the surface, it’s a very versatile lure.

It’s also surprisingly durable, I had a plug catch over 100 fish before being taken by a toothy pike and the only real damage was some nicks and scratches and a treble hook that had to be replaced. In my opinion this is a must have that deserves a place in any anglers tackle box, pick one up and use it when the top water bite is good and hold on.

I’m not sure if mine is defective but this lure doesn’t seem to have any retrieve action that I can see. The prop on the back doesn’t work in the water. The lure just turns on it’s side and get’s dragged in.

I could get a similar effect by tying a hook to a twig and casting that out.

I like these baits always seem to get bites when other spinner baits fail. that being said ive had several wire breaks on decent fish including losing a nice kicker fish in a recent bass tourney. worst part is this one was brand new and that was the first fish on the bait.

very disappointing since it cost me in the tourney and I paid almost 12. 00 for the bait. I use a lot of booyah baits but they need to step up the wire on these baits or reduce the price.

Great spinner baits, maybe the best I’ve ever used in over 40 years of bass fishing and I fish spinner baits year round. Sharp hook and runs true.

This is a very high quality spinnerbait. I fished two versions all spring and I don’t know what it is about these but they get bit when others were not. Hooks and blades are high quality and the wire seems very durable.

I tried the Gitzit hellgrammite setup for the first time this year and did very well with catching bass. Then I tried these and the bigger profile seems to work great for the fish. They love them!! They bite and inhale the lure!! Excellent lure and you get a lot of them which is good because they love them!! They are durable too and don’t come apart easily when a fish bites.

Highly highly recommend this lure!!!!.

I bought these with the idea that they were big enough to divide and make two different lures from each one that are sized about right for sunfish. I discovered that they can be cut into three parts: A large water bug or spider styled lure with the three bigger legs on each side (top of lure), a medium larva type lure with three legs on each side and a deep V-forked tail (middle of lure), and a small hellgrammite that panfish can easily snatch (bottom of lure).

So, I ended up with three different types of panfish lures for each original lure. a fantastic bargain. All three types are showing well as everything from small bluegills to small bass and even catfish have gone for these dipped in attractant or stored in plastic bags with ground coffee.

I use this product as a trailer to small jigs or as a stand alone bait. Works well for small and largemouth bass. Dependable, life-like, quality product that is available in number of colors. My go to bait when smallmouth are active.