Soft plastics (weighted and unweighted) and jigs for me. 

My biggest rush comes from big baits. Throwin 8" glides or topwaters and seeing big bass come up from underneath it. seeing that big shadow underneath my bait. watching it stalk it then the massive strike.

my second favorite is flipping and pitching. drag locked down rippin lips! You really feel the power of those fish.

Following that its froggin in the thick stuff

Catching.

my favorites...

1) hollow body Frogs

2) t-rig/jig

3) dropshot

4) spinnerbait

5) crankbait

 

lol I guess I like them all, each lake I fish certain techniques really shine. I would say that my least favorite method is Punching, 

 

Mitch

I love setting the hook on a t-rigged plastic a close 2nd would be throwing jigs into cover and pulling out the big girls.

Skipping a weightless t-rig worm under overhanging brush where I don't even know for sure if I've hit water. 

Or, buzz tail shad over weeds.

I would have to say plastics first. Sittin there on a warm morning casting it out there and just workin slowly back to the boat. Its just so relaxing. But I do get the itch to take the chair off the bow and stand up and cast some spinner/buzzbaits every so often. Then it would be the frogs and poppers with jigs close behind.

Not really a crankbait kind of guy. My wife just doesn't understand how I can spend 13+ hours on the water.

From dawn till dusk gentlemen! Lovin every moment.

Sight fishing with a weightless trick worm. My favorite non-bass way of fishing is snagging paddlefish on Tablerock or Lake of the Ozarks.

Deep water structure

#1 TR soft plastics, #2 wacky rigged senkos, #3 draggin tubes for smallies on a UP Michigan lake, #4 spinnerbaits. I don't know why, but, I will throw spinnerbaits all day long and I hate throwing cranks. I love topwater (frogs, chuggers, and walk the dog baits), but they don't work as well (up north). I guess because the pike get to them before the bass have a chance. I use drop shot on a few clear lakes but the panfish drive me nuts. I get 8-9 rods out on the deck and go fishing but, the TR worm "thump" is what it's all about for me. Tight lines my brothers of the angle/dangle.

I love finding a hole in the weeds and then punching right through it to the bottom of the lake.

Holy crap...35 posts in a day...some of these threads do take a life of their own. haha. going off what someone said...Gotta love squarebills...even when its cold. I just toss a suspending one past the thick stuff, ram it into cover and let it sit for a second "dazed." If I can't see the fish pass on my offering...then I can (semi) legitimately say "works every time!"

My favorite lure is probably a frog, but I think the most exciting is a popper.

Pop pop, pause. Pop pop, BOOM. There's just something about seeing the fish smash a topwater.

jig

Texas rigging a finesse worm. A close second would be using a shallow crank bait under docks. For numbers, both are tough to beat.

Deep water structure

Come on now Catt...everybody on BR knows you're a bankbeater ;-)

My favorite lure is probably a frog, but I think the most exciting is a popper.

Pop pop, pause. Pop pop, BOOM. There's just something about seeing the fish smash a topwater.

Especially when you tease through the spaces in a lily pad bed.

Flippin'/pitchin' a jig, beaver, or worm. Shallow water fishing at its best.

Flippin'/pitchin' a jig, beaver, or worm. Shallow water fishing at its best.

I love flipping a rage tail anaconda from the bank...watching it fall through the twists and turns of a sunken stump is such a beautiful thing  

I love using crank baits and just burning them on banks, around tress and other types of structure..... but my favorite is around rocks nothing is compared to that

Sight fishing with soft jerkbaits and senkos, I love fishing walk the dog style lures too.

Spook style baits in clear northern waters, nothing beats seeing big smallmouth shoot up from 25 feet and destroy your lure!!

 

After that i would say weightless big worms in shallow grass/pads!

My favorite method is one I don't use very often. In south Florida everywhere I fish is loaded with weeds and pads. So I often throw plastics back in or around the slop. Therefore Texas rigged plastics is the way to go.

My favorite is: There is nothing better then the explosion of a top water lure early morning or late afternoon. Fun, fun, fun! I used to do it more when I lived up north. Devil Horse, Chug Bugs, and Rapala Stickbaits.