This will be a hard one.

 

 

 What fishing bait style do you think accounts for the most bass on average?

 

 

Topwater, frog,  crankbait, spinnerbait, buzzbait, senko style, jerkbait, texas rig, swim jig, jig & pig, swimbaits, etc.....

For me a creature bait.

With all the wind in my area a spinnerbait has been the most effective.

Texas Rigged Plastics hands down!

Casting, flipping, pitching or punching

Winter, spring, summer, or fall

Bank shallow out to ???

Id be willing to say, for anglers as a whole, jigs and t-rigs account for more bass than anything else.

 

For me personally, its jigs.

Crankbaits!!!

Most bass nation wide? 5" Texas-rigged soft stickbait.

Id be willing to say, for anglers as a whole, jigs and t-rigs account for more bass than anything else.

 

For me personally, its jigs.

With what trailer?

Texas Rigged Plastics hands down!

Casting, flipping, pitching or punching

Winter, spring, summer, or fall

Bank shallow out to ???

v-e-r-y well said

Most of my fish come on cranks.

Worm

Crankbaits for me. But from reading on the internet, I'd say plastics and jigs overall.

Texas rigged plastics probably catches more fish every year than anything else. 

Texas rigging plastics (idk what it is but when I can't get a bite on anything else a Senko ALWAYS produces fish it must contain fish crack)

I much rather fish 1.) Frogs 2.) Frogs 3.) Frogs 4.) Crankbaits 5.) Chatterbaits [thats my new obsession caught me some big fish the few times I have been throwing them. Never thrown them until about 2 weeks ago or so]

Texas Rigged Plastics hands down!

Casting, flipping, pitching or punching

Winter, spring, summer, or fall

Bank shallow out to ???

Yes Sir!

plastic worms, I include senkos in this category - you can take a 4" to 6"plastic worm anywhere in the country any season and catch fish.

Texas Rigged Plastics hands down!

Casting, flipping, pitching or punching

Winter, spring, summer, or fall

Bank shallow out to ???

So true !!

Soft plastics by a large margin.

Soft plastics by a large margin.

Totally Agree

Mike

Texas Rigged Plastics hands down!

Casting, flipping, pitching or punching

Winter, spring, summer, or fall

Bank shallow out to ???

 

^ Yep! And it ain't even close. For me, the next most effective would be crankbaits, followed by jig 'n' pig, spinnerbaits, then everything else

The lowly soft plastic worm doesn't win as many tournaments today as it did in the past when the Texas rig was the dominate presentation. The Texas rig with a sliding bullet weight, isn't as popular today with the average bass angler. If you combine all the different soft plastic worms/creatures including heavy salt worms (Senko) with the T-rig, C-rig, drop shot, split shot/mojo, punch rigs, No contest. Soft plastics dominate the numbers of bass caught everyday and night year around.

Tom

For me personally it is definitely a spinnerbait. I fish it so many different ways and times.

 

Overall though I would agree with what seems to be the consensus, and that is texas-rigged soft plastics.

For me its a texas rigged zoom lizard!

The lowly soft plastic worm doesn't win as many tournaments today as it did in the past when the Texas rig was the dominate presentation. The Texas rig with a sliding bullet weight, isn't as popular today with the average bass angler. If you combine all the different soft plastic worms/creatures including heavy salt worms (Senko) with the T-rig, C-rig, drop shot, split shot/mojo, punch rigs, No contest. Soft plastics dominate the numbers of bass caught everyday and night year around.

Tom

Ya even tournment any more?

Every one throwing Texas rigged(maybe not a worm) plastics in some shape or another. It maybe weightless, weighted, or pegged it's still a Texas Rig!

The Texas Rig is about the hook & how its embedded in the plastic, the weight was optional from the beginning.

As much as it kills y'alls ego a Punch Rig is a Texas Rig with a bigger weight, we've thrown that down here on Rayburn & Toledo Bend for 4-5 decades...it aint new!

Kills my ego, what isn't Texas about about Texas rig? Agree the weedless hook into a plastic worm has become the Texas rig, wasn't always. Florida rig was the pegged weight "punch rig" back in the 70's.

Texans can make the claim they invented modern bass fishing and I agree, it all started there before Ray Scott came along.

Tom