what are your thoughts, as well as instant classics for tommorow. can be broken down by bait category. 

id actually take a different angle on it.

my answer.... Sexy Shad. it became the fastest fad ive ever seen.

next to that....... the hollow bellied swimbait

and the shakey head.

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For me the Senko is my most influential bait... in the last few years.

In the future, it will be the flat shaky head with mothers finest worms. HOTSTUFF!

I second the Senko comment. There really isn't another bait that can be fished in as many different ways and still catch fish.

Senko. End of story.

Senko, I sometimes use them as jig trailers for snook.  There is a a product called a snookball which is practically the same thing.

Chatterbait

The Senko would be number one but certainly Shaky heads & swimbaits are also making a mark as viable options.

Senko. End of story.

That's the one.

This is a tough one. The Senko is one for sure. Maybe the surface frogs, seems that they have a big following. I would also nominate the LC Pointer even though jerk baits have been around forever.

  I would not consider a technique such as drop shotting or shakey head because those methods have ben around for decades lacking those catchy names. I am curious to see what others have to say.

Senko!

This is a tough one. The Senko is one for sure. Maybe the surface frogs, seems that they have a big following. I would also nominate the LC Pointer even though jerk baits have been around forever.

I would not consider a technique such as drop shotting or shakey head because those methods have ben around for decades lacking those catchy names. I am curious to see what others have to say.

I agree to an extant, as the jigworm has been fished since the 70's however the Shaky Head is a refinement of that technique and this has become a go to technique for most of your everday bass fisherman as opposed to something that only few know about and use.

Influential to What?  The retail market ? Productivity as a lure ? It's tie,  The SENKO and the SWEET BEAVER have been two of the most, if not the most copied baits in the past ten years.  Every manufacture has their version. Andre Moore and Gary Yomamoto have had a huge impact on the " plastic's market.  It's hard to find many derivations of the original Senko but look at the dozens for the Sweet Beaver. Creature baits abound.  They both have had similar impact like the original Bobby Garland Gitzit. That established a new lure category, the " tube."

without question...SENKO

Senko handsdown, how many imitators are there out there again? ;D My first bass ever was on a senko type worm I found on a shoreline while handfishing with a can 9 years ago, and it won't be my last thats for sure

definitely senko

I would have to go with a swimbait. Relatively unknown and now a staple on the BASS circuit. Amistad, and kentucky lake were both won this year on swimbaits. And the popularity is still growing. just my opinion though

Senko followed closely by Swimbaits.

Chalk another one up for the Senko.

what are your thoughts, as well as instant classics for tommorow. can be broken down by bait category.

SENKO

#1...unquestionably....Senko

#2....Brush Hogs

#3....Swimbaits.....although the Sassy Shad has been around for a while and was my first "swim" bait. But the large hard and soft swimbaits have definitely gotten a lot of attention this past decade.

1.Senko's

2.Swimbaits

3.Frogs

Unquestionably, the Senko has impacted the fishing world more in the past decade than any other lure.

Unquestionably, the Senko has impacted the fishing world more in the past decade than any other lure.

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