I produce plenty of bass with soft plastics such as texas rig trick worm, wacky senko, and shakey head pro-senko. and when i produce i mean im catching at least three fish an hour. but i can never seem to catch fish on hard baits. i mainly do shore fishing if that has anything to do with it. and by hardbaits i mean cranks, lipless cranks, topwater,spinner, jigs. pretty much everything but plastics, i cant catch fish on.