Our bass expert ranked and tested the 16 best soft plastic baits for bass fishing, including the best worms, craws, swimbaits, toads, and more.

Soft plastic baits for bass have the most realistic profiles, textures, and actions of any of the best bass lures. That makes them irresistible to bass, whether they’re tucked in heavy cover ...

Here’s a breakdown of the best lures the top 10 anglers used to end up at the top of the leaderboard at the Lake Hartwell Bassmaster Elite event. Top finishers used soft plastic finesse baits.

Here’s a breakdown of the best lures the top 10 anglers used to end up at the top of the leaderboard at the Lake Hartwell Bassmaster Elite event. Top finishers used soft plastic finesse baits.

Simply cast and retrieve like a hardbody jerkbait to give this soft-plastic bait some incredible darting action that bass can’t resist. Compared to other fluke style baits on the market, the Zoom ...

Black bass are starting to move deeper as the water warms, said Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Try top-water ...

"Southern Plastics manufactures probably 70 to 80 percent of the soft plastic baits made in this country. It comes right out of this building," Spence says in the video.

Black bass are biting well and are also moving shallow to spawn. Try spinner baits, plastic worms, swim baits or Zoom Flukes. Any lure an angler likes to use may work for bass right now, Jones said.

See the top 3 lures that carried Wes Logan and other pros to success at the 2025 Bassmaster Elite on Lake Tenkiller. Classic shallow power fishing at its finest.

Other plastic baits followed, some imitating other forms of bass forage, others suggesting several types of forage. There were four-inch worms, there were 10-inch worms and every size in between.