Fishing Tackle: How to Choose a Fishing Lure?

Over the past few years, lure fishing becomes more and more popular. There are a number of factors which have contributed to it:

The tackles of lure fishing are portable, and you don’t have to take actions to keep the live baits fresh;
Fishing with lures can protect the environment;
Lure fishing needs you keep moving, and you can have an exercise when fishing.
Lure fishing changes the traditional fishing method, you can find the fish proactively instead of waiting the fish to have a bite.
Lure fishing has no limitations of time or spot.

But there are many kinds of fishing lures in the market, they have different shapes, different sizes and different colors, how to find the most appropriate fishing lures? Experienced fishermen have already given us the answers.

1. The size

When you get into a fishing tackles store, you will find the sizes of the fishing lures are multifarious. If you don’t have a clear idea, you will like a headless chicken running with no direction. The sizes of fishing lures are usually depending on what kind of fish you want to catch. If the fish you catch is big, then the size of fishing lures should be large. And if the fish you catch is small, you should downsize your lures.

2. The color

When choosing the fishing lures, people always take the color into first consideration. As we all know, fishing lure is a type of artificial fishing bait which is designed to attract a fish's attention. The lure uses movement, vibration, flash and color to bait fish. If the color of the lure is not attractive enough for the fish, it will be hard to catch the fish.

Choose the appropriate lure color is a kind of science, there are many little skills:
Know the habit of the fish you want to catch. For example, how they see and eat.
Green colors would work best in green waters and that blue lures would be effective in blue water. So you should consider the color of water when choose fishing lures.
The colors will be changed with the depth of the water. And bright colors will be drab for fish in deep water.
In clear water, longer color wavelengths (like red) are visible in the shallows and shorter wavelengths (like blue) are visible in the depths.

3. Others

Plastic worms: They should be fished slowly, on or near the bottom, and can be made to swim or wiggle.

Jigs: Use the lightest jig you can as long as you can still feel when it hits the bottom.

Crank baits: They can dive below the surface and wiggle like a fish, but hard to handle out of the water.

Lure fishing is a challenging activity, choose the appropriate fishing lures is just the first step. How to cast the fishing line and how to move the lures in the water are all important for you if you want to learn the lure fishing. But just believe yourself, as long as you learn it carefully, you will become powerful one day.