Hey everyone I was just going through my overflowing tackle bag of plastics and was wondering what works for everyone else. What brand, size and color do you use?

I, like you, have tons of plastics as do the vast majority of serious bass fishermen. If I were trying to thin out the number of different plastics I carry with me on an every day outting I would have to give it some thought but I'm fairly sure I could get by with baits from around, oh I'd say 3 companies. NetBait, Zoom, and Berkley would be the three I would concentrate on. I could get by with a few select lures from each company just fine I think.

 

I would end up with more creature and craw type baits than anything else, baby paca craws, baby brush hogs, B-Bugs, baby B-Bugs, Pit Boss, and on and on. Zoom Super Flukes would be big for me (as they currently are) along with their lizards, regular and magnum. NetBait T-Mac's and finesse worms would cover all my straight tail worm needs. Zoom and NetBait would have all my jig trailer needs covered between them. So on and so forth, you get the idea but between these three lure companies I'd be set as far as plastics were concerned.   

After re-reading your post I think I missunderstood what you were asking completely, sorry about that. I'm not sure I can narrow down my plastics fishing that small but I guess a Zoom super fluke and a brush hog would get me by a lot of times if I just HAD to name a favorite. I use all three sizes of super flukes with the regular size being the most used followed by the magnum and then the small one. As for colors my #1 color for them is baitfish and a close second and third would be watermelon and baby bass.

Green pumpkin is the color of Brush Hog I use 95% of the time, in either the baby size which I use most or the full size. I do ALWAYS dye the tails chartreuse with either Spike It or JJ's Magic.

Rage recon in falcon lake craw. Worms are proven in any body of water so if I had to use one for the rest of my life, that would be my plastic of choice.

1.) 5" Gary Yamamoto senko in baby bass

 

2.) Gary Yamamoto double tail hula grub in pumpkin.

 

3.) 7" Berkley Powerbait worm in any color.

The only plastics I use are Rage Tails. My favorite colors, are Falcon Lake Craw, Blue Craw, and Green Pumpkin purple/gold. If I could only have one for the rest of my life, just gimme a Falcon Lobster. At least then I could still use it for a jig trailer, Rage-Rigged, Tx rigged, C-rigged, even topwater, and catch fish anywhere in the country .

 

If I could only fish on plastic it would be a tube and the color would be green pumpkin with black flake before the spawn and purple flake after the spawn. 

 

#2 would be 5" stick in bubble gum before the spawn and red after.

For me any lightweight jig and a Paca Chunk. Jig color blk/blu, desert sand, brown/crayfish, and grn pumpkin. Chunk color all of them except, pink and white.

Well, if you have not tried the Rage Tail line-up you are simply missing the boat.

 

I suggest picking up some MegaBugs from MegaStrike, too.

Grande Bass Rattlesnakes - Junebug and trophy hunter. I prefer them weightless or texas rigged with a 1/16 or 1/8 oz weight. absolutely my favorite, I can always get a bite, and most all of my fish over 4# have come on them.

There are certain plastics I use.  After running out and buying all the fads in all the colors, then thinning the stuff out cause it was just too much.  I found there are certain things I use regularly.

Soft stickbait

Fluke style bait

Floating finesse worm

Paddle tail

 

I usually have each kind in natural color such as shad or a white with black top.

 

Now the brands I use,

Gary Yamamoto

Roboworm

Keitech

 

I try to keep it simple.

Creature baits for me. Mostly throw Baby Brush Hogs or the regular Brush Hogs. Almost always in green pumpkin of some form.

 

I did pick up some Havoc baits this year to try out.

Rage tail 7" thumper in California craw, has'nt failed me yet!!

5 inch Senko - Black

Zoom Finesse Worm - Green Pumpkin

Zoom Magnum Shaky Head - Watermelon Magic

Strike King Rage Craw - Green Pumpkin-ish

Baby Brush hogs, and Super Hogs.  Usually in greens and browns.

Big producers in the local canals are Zoom lizards watermelon red chart. As far as in the Everglades, its Gambler eZ swimmer in Bright Copper.

3"- 5" Senko ( Black w/no flake, Junebug, Red Shad, & Baby Bass)

Berkley Havoc Juice Worm Jr. (Red Shad) & Pit Boss (Perfection)

KVD Caffiene Shad & Ocho

Creme Worm (Scoundrel)

7" Berkley Power Bait (Black, Red Shad, & Tequila Sunrise)

Zoom Super Fluke, Lizards, Brush Hogs & Shakey Head Worms  (Baby Bass, Junebug, Black w/blue flake)

 

These my "go to" plastics & they all have their own place & time, but as I continue to fish new waters and meet new anglers it evolves.

My PB's have come off of the 5" Senko in june bug & black

Some of my favorite plastics are from a variety of different brands. They include:

First off I usually go for either perch colors, green pumpkin and/or watermelon w/black flake.

Yamamoto Senko's 5" & fat Ika's

Grandebass rattlesnakes in the Trophy Hunter color

Jackall Flick Shake's & crosstail shad

Netbait Paca Craw

 

These have all been huge producers for me.

1) Yamamoto Senko - Baby bass

2) Rage Tail recon worm - Falcon lake craw

3) Rage Tail space monkey - Bama bug

 

Can't go wrong with any of these

5in senkos and Missile baits d bombs

Plastic flukes, both fresh and saltwater.

I broke with my own tradition yesterday and fished a bass jig with a trailer for the first time in my life.  I absolutely hated it, just too slow for me and it bored me to tears.  I actually did catch about 5 fish in half hour or so and the sizes were decent.  Objectively it caught fish, even though I used my same inshore rod I always use bite detection was no problem, as I say rocks don't swim.  I think for some people they are a real winner, just not my style, even though my fluke didn't come close to the same production I enjoy them better, just a lot more fun.

Netbait T-mac, Havoc Pit boss, Zoom Baby Brush Hog, Rage craw, Rage anaconda, Zoom magnum finesse worm, BPS stick O.

Use a Texas rig with a zoom magnum Green Pumpkin, and if your feelin frisky throw a xps worm rattle(3mm) in the tail end

I am currently using the PowerTeam Lures lineup for all of my freshwater soft plastics (finesse worms, craws, tubes, curly tailed grubs and lizards). For saltwater plastics, I use Bass Assasin Shads, Marsh Works (hard to find now) Bayou Thumpers and Zoom Super Flukes.

For frogs, I use Stanley Ribbits and Capt. Ken Daubert's Clones.