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I throw lizards spring-fall and it's usually zoom or rage. I went overboard and bought many many colors lol, but the best to me are the basics watermelon seeds, green pumpkins, pumpkins, blacks, and junebug. In the zoom brand my go to is the moccasin blue 6 inch and the black emerald magnum lizard, those 2 colors always come thru. I throw mine on a 1/4oz-1/2oz swing head with 8-10lb fluorocarbon or copoly on spinning tackle just my preference. I also carry red and chartruese spike-it to dip the tails, some days I feel it does make a difference.

Yes you can I've used the craw and space monkey this way, both a bit more subtle than the toad and shad. Fish them on a keel weight hook and reel just just fast to keep on surface, I like 1/8 and 1/4 the best.

I'll say the hybrids/white bass love them I bought the lemon shad one last week and caught 3 on the first 5 casts. I'm sure the green bass will go for it as well I just couldn't get it past the white fish lol. Overall I think it was a good bait far as the underspin. I don't think it's better than a fishhead spin but on par with it, and better than the strike King versions. The trailer was nothing special just a paddletail with the basic action.

I'm not much of a topwater fisherman but I had good luck last year using the rage toad and rage craw as topwater in some small ponds for bass and pickerel.

P line cxx in 6lb plenty strong and inexpensive.

Rugby swinging head with a rage lizard, a 1/4 fish head spin with a white ice swimming fluke Jr(if the bass don't want it usually the stripers/hybrids will nail it), 1/4 Johnson silver minnow with a 3 inch curly tail on it

Rippin rap is my favorite lipless, love them for bass, white bass, hybrids.

Swimming fluke jr is my favorite, I tried a rage menace on one the other day it looked amazing coming thru the water but unfortunately didn't get a bite on it.

Kvd line and lure may help with that

I usually use flukes as trailers so I typically use fluke Jr and swimming fluke jrs

Agree with this, love war eagle finesse spinnerbaits in 5/16oz especially the mouse color. As far as flukes had luck with white ice, bluegill flash, baby bass, and Arkansas shiner on fish head spins.

Only luck I've had with a fluke is pairing it with a fish head spin, but it's hard to keep the stripers/hybrids off it then.

I like square bills(kvd 1.5 and arashi) and lipless cranks(rippin' rap and red eye shad)

Some soft plastics worms and lizards(simple colors a watermelon, pumpkin, and junebug), flukes, with 3/0 or 4/0 hooks, and 1/4 ounce bullet sinkers. A few crankbaits like red eye shads(shad imitation, firetiger, crawfish colors) and rattle traps(chrome), and a few spinnerbaits(white,chartruese, dark color) should be fine to get you started in my opinion.

Rippin rap by rapala and the red eye shad are my favorites

Looks similar to the owner flash swimmer

Fish head spin first then the su-spin. I have some gambler meanos and road runner versions I need to try as well to see how I like them

Texas rigged lizards and worms, red eye shads/rippin raps, spinnerbaits

Man my mouth is watering looking at that crappie, I can't wait till they get in the banks so I can get some.

Would the 1/4oz red eye shads be kinda close to it

Love those I caught 10 bass throwing them last Saturday in a stump filled lake and never lost one, pulled thru the stumps, underwater pad stems, and laydowns with no hangups.

White ice and baby bass, this year I'm gonna try using the bluegill flash(I believe it's called) I just picked up at bass pro.

With the spawn being right around the corner I would try some lizards or craws either texas rigged or on a swinging head around some likely spawning areas. If that won't build your confidence I don't know what will. I was hesitant about plastics until last year, when a older guy on west point lake showed me how to fish soft plastics. He even gave me a few lizards and rigs(hooks/weights) to use and I wore them out that day, that built my confidence in them that day.

Spinnerbaits

War eagle finesse spinnerbait worked for me saturday down here in Georgia. Caught 10 bass on spinnerbaits and floating rapalas.