The Bomber Fat Free Shad.  I tried several colors and I never caught a fish on any of them.  But on the other hand, I have caught tons of fish on Bomber Model A's.

My nemesis baits are more of a catagory rather than a specific bait. A close friend owned a bait shop up till a few years ago and in that time he would order in all these cool and realistic looking baits like craws, helgermites etc.. If you were to put them on the floor and step back you would swear they were real.

For some strange reason I could not get bit on any of those baits.

The more unrealistic the better for me LOL.

chatterbaits

Thanks for all the replies, but what I thought seems to be comming through -- it ain't the bait, it's the fisherman.  We all seem to have certain lures that "don't work for me", but work for somebody else.

Blade Dancer and helicopter lure.

Yep, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I bought the whole helicopter lure kit. That was the last thing I bought endorsed by Roland Martin. Never again.

Cheers,

GK

Haven't seen one positive vote for Berkley bladedancer; agree with that.  Has anyone had any luck with this lure?

If a lure isn't popular the manufacture will pull it; maybe that's why we don't see many "worst lures" they get pulled if they don't sell.

If I was going to suggest one that won't work, it would probably be the blade dancer, but I have talked to some locals at a lake near the Berkley headquarters and they do report good results with 'em.  The reason I asked the question in the first place was to see if there really is a lure being sold that won't catch fish -- what it seems like is that there are lures that don't work for certain people, but do for others.

Gotta be berkely frezny crankbaits!  They even look stupid!  

as long as its got a hook on it, someone, somewhere, can catch something on it...

Spinnerbaits.  I have caught very few fish on them.  I will fish an area with them, and then go back through with a crankbait and wipe up the fish.  

I think its half/half.  Some baits aren't as effective as others, but confidence has alot to do with it.  You can't catch a fish on something if the whole time your thinking it wont work.

I think this has to do alot with Rick Clunn's article on Quantum physics, which has kinda changed the way I am attitude wise on the water.

I never used to catch fish on spinnerbaits until i started fishing windswept shorelines with them and had the best and most exciting fishing i ever had, now that i have confidence in them and they are one of my favorites.As for the frenzy crankbaits try them for topwater they can be a blast thrown around rocks and stumps and just twitched slowly i prefer floating raps but frenzys seem to work good as well.