Fuzzy Baits: The Next Big Thing in Bass Fishing!

Hey guys, a few months ago I did a video on dice baits, you know, an emerging bait that's coming out of Japan that people are using to catch fish. I spent the spring and summer fishing the snot out of them, and I put together a video that shows the different ways to fish them and how to catch fish with them, and it's pretty comprehensive.

One of the things I did at the end of the video was to show you how to make your own, because these are pretty expensive baits. It's about $20 for 5 baits, that's pretty expensive. So, the way that you make them is you get furniture, fabric needles. I like to get the kind you use for leather, so it's a real thick stout needle. And you get some rubber strands, some skirting material, cut them to size, and then you get a Senko-style bait and cut them into smaller chunks and then thread the rubber skirting through it to make it look like a dice bait. It works really well. I've been fishing these, they work great, they're very inexpensive, it saves you a ton of money. It's kind of fun to make them and you catch fish on something that you made.

Well, what I didn't tell you in that video is what I'm going to tell you now. That is, one day while I was making these baits, I pulled out another Senko-style bait, I went to cut it off and I went, "Wait a minute, what if I just do it on the full-size bait instead?" So I did that and I tried it and I caught fish. It worked, the fish loved it. I caught a lot of fish with that. I was like, "Wow, this is pretty cool," so I started doing that. Well then my brain said, "Well, duh, why are you just doing it on these type of baits? What about all the different kind of plastic baits you have?" So, I started to get creative and I started doing it on a variety of different baits. I did it on beaver-style baits like the Rage Bug and the D Bomb. I put them on lizard-style baits. I put them on crawdads, craw-style baits. Gosh, what else did I do? I did them on tubes. Yeah, tubes, dragging them, fishing the tube on all these baits. Fishing them the way I normally do, but having the skirt on them like this, really it adds another level of attraction to it and gets bass to bite them.

I even used Ned Rig-style baits. And think about this, guys, you don't have to put it on a Ned jig head. These baits are designed to float, so I started putting them behind split-shot rigs and Carolina rigs with these appendages attached to them. And oh, my goodness, bass haven't seen that before and I got a lot of bites out of them. So the imagination, it's limitless. Whatever bait that you want to put them on, you can do this.

Now, you guys know that if you've been watching me for a while, I go to ICAST every year. I've been to like, 17 or 18 ICASTs now. I don't remember. But what basically it is, is a preview as to what all the baits are going to be the following year. ICAST is in July and these baits typically come out end of the year and throughout the following year. I did not see any style of plastic baits there that were like this, that were coming out. They had the dice baits. They had like, another bait that was like a round ball that had the rubber skirts hanging out of them, but that was it. I didn't see any of the baits yet. And that's the thing. I think it's coming.

Because of how well this works, I really do think that there's going to be a bunch of baits hitting the market within the next few years that are going to be like the dice baits. They're going to have these rubber appendages, these rubber skirting materials sticking out of them because they work so well. As a matter of fact, I think the manufacturers are going to have the non-fuzzy kind and the fuzzy kind.

In fact, I'm going to give it a new type, a new category name, a new category of baits. You're hearing it here first, guys. I'm calling them fuzzy baits. That's the new category of baits. They're called fuzzy baits. No one's ever called them that before. No one's saying anything like that. There was nothing like this at ICAST. But just based upon the success that I've seen making my own, there's going to be a bunch coming out and they're going to call them fuzzy baits.

So, when you hear this later on and you hear people talking about fuzzy baits, you heard it here first, this video here right now. I should trademark the name, but that's, I'm just calling the ball right now. And we'll see how that pans out. But I really do think that we're going to see the market flooded with these fuzzy baits.

In the meantime, you can make them yourself very simple and easy. It doesn't take much time. Right now, this video is coming out in January. This is when all the...you know, maybe late December I think is when it's coming out. This is when cabin fever sets in. A lot of times you can't get out and fish because of the weather. So this is a great time to start making these baits, building out your arsenal and filling out your tackle box full in time for spring and summer so you have them ready.

Not only can I think you catch more fish with them, but you'll get them before it becomes available in the market. And if you fish tournaments, you're going to have an edge over your competitors because they won't be fishing this. So, you might be able to win a few tournaments by doing this.

I know a lot of pros use the dice baits today, have them on their boats. And they've been using them the past year or two. And they have been winning tournaments on them secretly. They don't really announce it too much. But yes, tournaments are being won on the dice baits. It stands to reason that these other types of baits that have these appendages put on them will be equally as effective.

So, start making them, build out your arsenal, have yourself a ball this spring, and look for fuzzy baits coming to you in the next few years. I hope that helps. For more tips and tricks like this, visit bassresource.com.