Ok, you have $100 of my money to spend on tackle to get me started. I�m brand new to bass fishing but have been doing a lot of reading and YouTube watching. I�m compiling a pretty good list and you guys have been very helpful so far.

Between cranks, jerks, rips, top waters, spinners, square, round, lipless, all the softs and not to mention colors... it�s overwhelming to say the least.

So if you were starting someone out from scratch what do you tell them to get.

Be as specific as possible with brand, type, model, color, weight etc...

You really need to tell what kind of fishing you want to do. Fishing from a boat? deep or shallow, the shore? You really don't want to just go out and fill a tackle box. Start with a few basics and then slowly buy what you like to use. Plastics are cheap and versatile. $100 doesn't go very far with tackle. Keep it simple and just get 2 or 3 colors to start. Remember that most of the tackle out there is to catch fishermen not fish.

For me it would probably be a package of good hooks, some weights, watermelon baby brush hogs, chartreuse dipping dye, small swivels, a couple bags of worms, a black/chartreuse and a shad colored square bill crank bait, chartreuse/white spinner baits and a top water. That alone, depending on brand will be getting close to your budget. Acquiring tackle is a long term process learned from experience. Just take $10-20 a week and go try something new.

It will be a mix of shore and boat. I will also be purchasing the rest of the things needed for fishing ie baitcasting rod and reel, tackle bag etc...

$100 is the getting started budget for the bait. I fully expect to spend much more over time.

this ^^^^ everybody has theyre favorites but take a look at what your fishing partner or mentor may use ---if you looked on the deck of his boat what would you see ? not including hardware (lol--just software !) it would cost you 100 to cover that .

be careful what you wish for --this game is like a drug habit -- it will grow from there !
good luck !

1. 4/0 ewg (extra wide gap) hooks
2. green pumkin senko
3. black blue senko
4. baby brush hog watermelon red
5. 1/4 oz tungsten weight
6. zoom horny toad black and white

z man original chatterbait white and a black and blue
war eagle spinnerbait white

kvd 1.5 square bill sexy shad

basically what Bobby said

A long long time ago, it was in this galaxy, I thought I would start playing golf. I played and played, listened to people as they told me what to do, clubs to buy, balls to use and for some reason I couldn't get in the 90's. A year went by and still couldn't do it. Then one day at the golf course I was talking to a guy about it and he told me to do what he tells me and I would shoot in the 90's that day. I laughed and said okay tell me what to do. He got my bag and told me to show him the one club that I thought that I hit the best and I picked up the 7 iron. He put my bag in the car and told me to play this 18 with just that club. It didn't matter what brand or grip or ball just use that club. I did and shot a 92. So with that in mind, pick some of those baits you think you could catch a fish on and buy a couple of them and go catch some fish.

Sounds like my golf coach in high school.

Get plastics to start. Senkos, trick worms, flukes, and some mag2 zoom worms. Keep colors simple, green pumpkin, watermelon red, red bug or plum, and black/blue. Throw in white for the fluke or trick worm. Get a few different weights. I use 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 for most fishing. 3/4 can be good throwing a c-rig out deep but 1/2 will work to get started. Also get some split shots. A split shot about a foot above a fluke is killer around grass. I use 4/0 offset round bend hooks for most worm fishing but a 4/0 reg that's not real thick wire will be good for all things I've mentioned. Get some swivels and some clear beads for Carolina rigs. Any money you have left I would get a popper top water and a few ribbits in the watermelon red with a pearl bottom. If you get the frogs get the non weighted double hook. The frogs kind of need a stiff rod and braid if your throwing around a lot of junk but if it's mainly open you can get by with something else, it's just not ideal. Welcome to the addiction

Keep things simple; there are rods designed for specific lures and specific water temperatures these days.

There are three basic lure presentations:
Top of the water column (topwaters/frogs)
Middle of the water column (spinner baits, crankbaits, etc)
Bottom baits (Texas rig, Carolina rig, etc)

To keep things simple, I'd get four rods.

One Medium strength moderate fast action--for finesse presentations--drop shot, light shaky head, very light/small topwaters, crankbaits, jerkbaits--I'd put a spinning reel on this rod to make casting the lures easier

One Medium Heavy strength moderate action--for treble hooked topwaters, crankbaits, jerkbaits

One Medium Heavy strength moderate fast action--for single hooked water column presentations (buzzbaits, spinner baits, flukes, senkos, chatterbaits, light Texas rig

One Heavy strength moderate fast action--for frog fishing, pitching into thick vegetation.

Lures and colors--
again, keep it simple.

Buy one topwater presentation lure--Hollow body popping frog (The Academy H20 Xpress frogs work just fine). Buy one in black, one in white, one in green

Buy one middle of the water presentation lure--3/8oz Academy H20 Xpress CRS square bills work--get one in a shad color, one black back/chartreuse belly, one in a bluegill color.

Buy a versatile lure that can be fished in the middle and bottom of the water column--5 inch YUM dingers (YUM's version of the senko). Black and blue, green pumpkin colors.

Start simple: Take one rod and one lure with you to start.
Start fishing with the most versatile lure--the YUM dingers/senkos.
Learn to fish them weightless Texas rig, then split shot, then Texas rig, drop shot, wacky rigged, then on a shaky head, then Carolina rigged, etc, etc.

Once you have confidence in one presentation, move onto the next.

I have a lot of accumulated stuff that I need to get rid of. If you live near Garland pick out the items you want from the posts and if I have them I'll make your $100 go a lot farther.

I would start with moving baits like Beetle spins and H&H spinners and Rattle traps to get used to casting and feeling the strike. Then I would go to a Texas Rig to get used to the feel of a plastic bait bite. Senkos and Flukes fished weightless are good but harder to detect the bite and often the line just moves. Watch your line where it enters the water on plastics. As you get more experience then determine where you want to upgrade. Better spinner baits, Chatter baits, cranks, C-rigs, drop shots,etc.

The types of structure or depth you like to fish will then have a bearing on what lures you'll want to have.

I too have a lot of surplus stuff for bass and others. If you're in Wise county, I can turn a Benjamin into two Benjamin's worth of tackle.

I'd buy a package of Senko's, water melon red. A sexy shad chatter bait, 1/2 oz. A sexy shad KVD 2.0 crankbait. A black buzzbait. A top water frog, probably a cheap one from academy. A package of hooks and some bullet weights. If I was feeling fancy, I'd buy also buy package of tubes and tube hooks. Boom. 50 bucks and you can sling baits with the best of e'm.

Makes me wonder why I have thousands of dollars of tackle...

Just PM me your address

Throw a spinnerbait in with this and I agree