If you could have only one. Not type or brand, but one color, size, scent, brand, shape.

I really had to think on this one. After I posted this I went out bought more plastics "Dicks had a sale" . I am caught between a big bite baits scented creature bait or a 6 inch curly tailed worm from zoom also scented.

Toss up between a 5" watermelon/black flake YCB Senko, and a green pumpkin Rage Tail Baby Craw. This year it's been all about the baby craw.

Trickworm.

I wouldn't fish.

 

I like fishing because you have many options for almost everything you do, diversification.

Rage craw in wtml/red

Ribbon tail worm

Green Pumpkin Rage Craw.

3 inch yum wooly hawgtail in black and blue

Black 6 inch lizarrd can be modified a lot of ways top too bottom

White Trick worm.  It can be rigged many different ways, fished fast or slow, and works in just about any water color.

Rage chunk/craw in "falcon lake"

Bama Craw colored Rage Tail Bug

Senko. Can be cut and rigged a variety of ways.

A fluke.  Catch any predatory fish in any body of water.  Can be fished weedless, nose hooked or on a jig head, nearly the entire water column can be covered, nothing is more versatile for me.  I like pearl with a red tail.

I would hate having to pick one, or 20, but all around, can do anything with this soft bait-flip-c-rig-dropshot-power shot, weightless...we all get it...I think I would cheat as I would hate not having some black Trick worms in my pocket or 6" black senkos with me, but overall, I would have to go......

 

Yum Houdini Shad 5" Fluke in Smoke with purple/Red flake and I could then modify the tail to have a full paddle tail swimming fluke, swim worm as it is thin, could buzz it on surface, cut hole in tail to cause it to fall like a tube so good for flipping, could then also fork the tail and use it like the zoom flukes as finesse or anything.....

 

I can flip this under a 1 ounce sinker and its not hanging up, carolina rig it, wacky rig it and even though I reach for a zoom swimming fluke first, or forked tail I would go houdini shad....

 

or Sluggo 6" Motor Oil Green, kind of same deal.....I would hide some small squrimin worms with me, ribbon tails, and some 5" grubs, and while cheating may as well grab some beavers, and then grab some Rage Tail stuff and just dump lobsters, eels, rodents, recons, cutr, ochos, and dream shots, and antything else that smells like starbucks. does Coffee  really help or is that just to create curiousity so fish pick it up kind of like Garlic and Anise....I think they like it and they actually swallow the swimbaits and grubs.

5" Senko, #297, with a dab of Megastrike.

Flukes buddy

fish them as a fluke jerkbait

fish them like a shad swimbait

fish them like a worm

drop shot em

carolinarig em

thats pretty versatile

I fish a lot of creature baits with the Sweet Beaver being my favorite.  I've been using the Rage Tail Space Monkey here lately and really, really like it.

I'm going to go away from all the new fangled gizmotron whatzits and just stick with the old standby:

 

Black neon 4" tube.  

 

If you can't catch a bass on that there is something wrong with you.

Mine would be a lizard in watermelon red.

No brainer......

 

The orginal 6" black creme worm.

 

We caught more bass with this split shot rig than any other bait. It's still a number 1 bait.

pit boss in dark green pumpkin

Watermelon Candy Baby Brush Hog

If I could only have one, I probably wouldnt tell anyone what it was

 

 

5 inch Senko.  Any dark color (Dark Pumpkin Amber Laminate is my favorite)