I'm gonna say a weightless, T-rigged, 5" Zoom fluke, preferably in pearl white.

A top popper like a rebel, but not married to any specific brand. I'm confident I catch less fish, but it's the most fun for me.

Jig.

I'll just throw this out there and see if it sticks with some of you

A light weight swim jig can be fished on the surface as a top water or even as a wake bait, using a high action trailer that has a lot of water resistance like a Lobster.

You can fish them as slow or as fast as the fish tell you they want.

A jig can be swam to mimic any variety of prey depending on your choice of colors, trailers, lengths etc.

It can be casted, flipped, pitched, punched in any variety of water conditions and depths.

You can fish them as slow or as fast and with any style of retrieve successfully.

All that is needed is a variety of sizes and styles of jigs and trailers to give you the GAME.

You can probably tell I like jigs too

I'll just throw this out there and see if it sticks with some of you

A light weight swim jig can be fished on the surface as a top water or even as a wake bait, using a high action trailer that has a lot of water resistance like a Lobster.

You can fish them as slow or as fast as the fish tell you they want.

A jig can be swam to mimic any variety of prey depending on your choice of colors, trailers, lengths etc.

It can be casted, flipped, pitched, punched in any variety of water conditions and depths.

You can fish them as slow or as fast and with any style of retrieve successfully.

All that is needed is a variety of sizes and styles of jigs and trailers to give you the GAME.

You can probably tell I like jigs too

So what your telling us Steve is that a jig & trailer can cover the whole water column from top to bottom & can be fished as a reaction bait to a finesse bait & everything in between. Maybe that is why a jig used to be included in army survival kits. Maybe that is why the almighty jig can catch just about any species that swims in fresh or salt water. I think your on to something.

T-rigged soft plastics, usually a 7.5 inch twirltail worm.

Switched my go to bait to a Jig. Been catching quality fish with it as well... not gonna change!

Sluggo is my favorite. Will work in my lake in the winter./

THere are two:

1. T-rigged 7.5" ribbon-tail worm

2. Chrome or shad-color lipless crank

Jigs are also in the mix.

Tom

This year it has been a blue / black jig.

Zoom finesse worm. The rigging options are endless. Shakey head, drop shot, Texas rig, whacky, C-rig, and on and on... They will catch numbers, and size. If you cant get bit, on that worm, in ANY color, on any of those rigs.............there are no bass in that body of water.

Black/Blue Jig w/ Craw trailer is numero uno. Watermelon/black fleck senko is a close second. Pretty much always have those two tied on.

Zoom Super Fluke White Ice Weightless T-Rig on 3/0 Gammy

-- casts a mile on my baitcaster and with a nice twitch, twitch, pause I get some great strikes

or

War Eagle 3/8 oz Chartreuse/White Spinnerbait

-- Right now it has been perfect in shallower waters with some moderate cover

Both have been doing pretty well for me. I am definitely confident with these. Still have yet to figure out a jig though.

T-rigged 10" culprit worm in red shad or Junebug

Baby brush hog in any natural color

Zoom trick worm in green pumpkin with the chartrues (sp?) Tail...I'f you haven't thrown this one yet give it a go. Wish they made the trick worm in a thicker profile although that would limit the great action it produces. Im able to get about two fish out of it before its trashed.

It seems like every season the hot bait for me is something different. I've gone from tubes to buzzbaits to lipless cranks, the list is as long as my arm. One constant every year for me is a jig and often times it's a bare jig tipped with some style of soft plastic. There are times when every rod on my deck has some style of jig tied on, but there is ALWAYS at least one tied on.

I'm curious for all of you religious jig fisherman, how does your hook-set compare to setting the hook with weedless plastics? (T-rigs, etc). I'm just now getting into jigs.

for me i'd have to say a senko texas rigged/weightless. seems like the slower i fish it the better. think im gonna have to give jigs a try though after hearing so many people rave about them

I'm curious for all of you religious jig fisherman, how does your hook-set compare to setting the hook with weedless plastics? (T-rigs, etc). I'm just now getting into jigs.

My jig hookups are almost full proof. I honestly can't remember the last time I missed a fish with a jig. Weedless plastics are more hit & miss because of the fish grabbing the end of the bait rather than eating it whole. My experience with a jig & trailer is the fish always eats it whole.

I never hit the water without a least one 3.5-4" tube bait tied on. It just edges out my jig & craw trailer combo. Now neither are my favorite to fish (spinner bait), but they are my most consistent/productive.

I'm curious for all of you religious jig fisherman, how does your hook-set compare to setting the hook with weedless plastics? (T-rigs, etc). I'm just now getting into jigs.

It depends what line I'm using, but the general answer is it's the same hook-set

Jig, I can catch fish out of 100% of the bodies of water I fish for bass with a jig.

I've caught exactly one fish in my entire life on a jig! lol

No doubt in my mind.... Senko and a Fat Ika.

I either use a blue/black jig with a papi craw trailer, or a Yum F2 black neon ribbon tail.

Jig. It's pretty much the first bass bait I learned. I strayed from it for a while and jumped into the Senko type bait craze, but in '10 I went back to my roots and went back to old reliable, the jig.

Do you guys use a swivel with your jigs or tie them directly? A buddy swears by using a swivel, while I tie them on.