In the realm of angling, innovative lure designs often come with quirky names. One such intriguing creation is the “Poop Bait.”
Despite its whimsical moniker, this soft plastic bait hails from the shores of Japan, a country renowned for pushing the boundaries of bass fishing technology.
Let’s dive deeper into what makes these baits tick and explore some of the best options available.
The name is obviously a bit goofy, but it is also a pretty accurate description of the body style.
Poop baits are a soft plastic bait that was originally design and created in Japan.
Over the past few decades, Japan has become the forefront of bass fishing innovation and is regularly creating new, effective bass lures and techniques.
Poop baits are kind of like a very short, thick Senko style worm. And we all know how effective Senkos are.
Using poop baits to catch bass might sound laughable, but it certainly is effective.
One of the hottest new baits coming from Japan, the Deps Cover Scat Stick Bait is poured with a bulky body and an ultra-high specific gravity material that boasts 40% salt content.
Despite its relatively small size, the Cover Scat is heavy stick bait packed with tons of salt.
Designed to be fished without any extra weight, this stick bait features a fast horizontal fall and uses body stabilization fins at the sides to encourage the proper posture.
The bulbous back end has a dimple molded exterior that gives the bait the same texture and vibration as a crawfish underwater.
A molded hook guard cup and belly hook slot allows for easy rigging and improves your hook-up rate with less plastic to shift down the hook shank, while the bulb on the top of the bait serves as a hook point guard to keep the presentation completely weedless.
Developed by guides on Lake Biwa in Japan, the Fish Arrow Heavy Poop Stick Bait is an innovative soft stick bait that gives fish a different presentation and helps trigger more bites in highly pressured waters.
Made from a special soft plastic formula that contains 30% salt, the Fish Arrow Heavy Poop Stick Bait weighs over half an ounce, which allows it to sink perfectly horizontal very quickly even when rigged weightless to fish deeper water and cast farther than other weightless stick worms on the market.
The special material also provides exceptional durability that is able to hold hook points firmly in place for weedless presentations and won’t tear up as easily as other soft stick worms.
Molded with a textured back and two large claw formations, the Fish Arrow Heavy Poop Stick Bait mimics a large crawfish in a tucked position when sitting on the bottom, which resembles a large protein packed meal for hungry bass.
The deep groove along the claw portion also helps channel water and makes it difficult to rotate during the retrieve to eliminate any line twisting issues.
A powerful compromise between finesse and power fishing, the Missile Baits Bomba Worm is the perfect asset for targeting your water’s biggest bass with either spinning or baitcasting gear.
The Bomba Worm features a short, thick, craw body worm profile that tapers in the middle for an erratic fall.
The body is also enhanced with 3D detailing, air-trapping holes, and a deep hook channel for easy, weedless rigging and reliably optimized hook sets.
An exciting new addition to the heavy stick bait market, the Missile Baits Bomba Worm relies on its bulky, dense body to encourage ultra-long casts and the ability to target nearly the entire water column with a weightless platform.
Not only does the Bomba Worm have the ability to cast into the next zip code, but it also skips with incredible efficiency to better reach big bass holed up under docks and overhangs.
A unique shape reminiscent of a crustacean that is deadly under tough conditions, the Nories Flip Dom Worm provides a tantalizing horizontal fall and mouthwatering profile that bass love to bite.
Molded to resemble the shell of a crawfish, the Nories Flip Dom Worm sways right and left when falling to the bottom and will glide in spontaneous directions to mimic a crawfish trying to flee from hungry bass.
It also features a generous hook pocket system that allows anglers to rig it completely weedless and fish it through grass, bushes, and under docks super efficiently.
The sheer weight and flat profile of the Nories Flip Dom Worm provides incredible skipping performance as well, giving anglers the ability to target fish that are hiding very far back under over hanging trees and docks.
Infused with scent and available in natural colors, the Nories Flip Dom Worm will become your new secret weapon for weightless worm presentations.
Perfect for finesse applications, the Reins Tank Worm is a heavy-style stick worm made from dense plastic that allows anglers to fish deeper water with a weightless presentation.
Loaded with salt, the Reins Tank Worm sinks quickly to the bottom and produces a subtle wobble that mimics a small crawfish.
Perfect for rigging on a weightless EWG style hook, the Reins Tank Worm casts a mile and sinks super-fast, eliminating the need for a weight.
Infused with scent and offered in a wide selection of colors, the Reins Tank Worm will get you bites in the toughest conditions.
Poop baits are a bit too thick and heavy to rig on a standard worm hook, so an extra wide gap hook is required.
With a regular Texas-rig, the point of the hook is pushed through the entire cross section of the bait and when a bass bites the lure, the plastic bait is pushed down exposing the point.
All of the above poop baits were specifically designed to be rigged up on an EWG hook.
Gamakatsu created the Supe rLine Spring Lock Hook to provide anglers with the ideal hook for fishing weightless soft plastics, like poop baits.
Not only does the hook’s stainless steel Spring Lock make poop bait rigging easy, it also combines with the hook’s 28-degree eye-bend and Extra Wide Gap to create accurate, weedless presentations time-and-time-again.
Screw lock hooks also tend to do less damage to the soft plastics, meaning that you will be able to catch more bass on the same bait.
