Not too many people ever mention this one, but one of my favorite plastics would be a zoom super hog. Always do well with them. Also, last year I caught a couple of my 5+ lbers on a 7" Minda Spear worm. Nobody really knows about it, but I'm telling you it will catch big fish.

Culprit 7- 1/2" in Black Shad. Nothing better.

Ronnie

I have played and still do, with a number of plastics ! I am 100 miles from you! Probably have accumulated 100 lbs of plastic in 25 yrs . When they don't bite anything and when they do, a 7 in Original Black power worm is the answer. Texas rig, work it slow. Many times have had inexperienced guys fishing with me and I have had them just drag the bait while I am doing everything else . Many of them own bass boats now because of that worm.

My favorite soft plastic changes about four times a day...

If you're fishing grass (esp. eel grass) the Skinny Dipper is hard to beat. That bait, rigged with a light keel-weighted hook, swims through the eel grass so perfect...it's almost impossible to present a bait better than that.

x2

Gotta love those dippers on a weighted hook.  Great lure to fish weightless as well.

Otherwise, a beaver style bait and a creature of some kind would round out my favorites.  Kind of hard to beat the old plastic worm as well.

LFT Craw Tube in Fork Secret

Rage Craw in Wtml/Red

Zoom Ol' Monster Worm in Junebug

LFT Hyper Freak in Greenpumpkin/red

LFT Live Magic Shad in Wtml/Red

5" Senko or Dinger.

Rage Shad.

Wooly Hawgtail.

1. Zoom trick worm in black emerald

2. Zoom finesse worm in camo

3. 4.20 beaver in waterbug

ZOOM Horny Toad Bullfrog

ZOOM Ol Monster Redbug

Berkley 10' PowerWorm Watermelon Red Flake and Junebug

All the Big Bite Baits,especially the Fighting Frog. I love this for swim'n or pitchin'

It's something the bass have never seen before. I've been wearing them out.

Can not what until ice-out!!