Curious to hear what everyone's top 3 go to are.

Square bills & Texas rig all year long

The third spot changes as the seasons change... At the moment hollow body frogs are producing well for me!

It seems that I only have one bait that Im using all year long, every single time I fish and thats my black/blue jig.

The others would depend on the time of year and what's produced well for me at that particular time.

For me it's lipless crank, tx rigged plastic, and a swim jig.

Do yall have a go to color for your TX rig...mine was always a black power worm, since I've moved to north carolina, my black worm hasn't been so good to me.

Do yall have a go to color for your TX rig...mine was always a black power worm, since I've moved to north carolina, my black worm hasn't been so good to me.

green pumpkin!

Texas Rig

Spinner/Chatterbait

Shakey

Mike

1. Texas rig (worm, creature, craw)

2. Jig and Rage Tail trailer

3. Wacky rigged senko

Do yall have a go to color for your TX rig...mine was always a black power worm, since I've moved to north carolina, my black worm hasn't been so good to me.

Blacks or reds for me. 

Lucky Craft Gunfish 115 in Shell White.

 

Missile Baits Shockwave in Candy Gill on a 5/0 Owner weighted Twistlock. 

 

3/8 oz. Siebert Outdoors tournament swim jig in Smoked Jelly paired with a Paca Chunk or Rage Bug, both in PBJ. Draaag pause draaag pause draaag pause shakeshakeshake FISH!

Rigs?

Texas, drop shot, wacky.

Weighted T-rig

 

Weightless t-rig

 

Carolina 

So far this year it has been crankbaits, jigs, and super flukes.

This year its been

 

Jigs

Trig

square bill

Siebert swim jig/ Rage Tail Menaced

 

MegaStrike ShakE2/ GYCB 6.5" Kut Tail

 

Rage Bug

1. Wacky rig

2. Weighted T-rig

3. Weightless T-rig 

Texas, Mojo, Shakeyhead

1. Jig - can do almost anything so it makes one rig very versatile...

2. Texas Rig

3. Chatterbait

This year it's been mostly thus: 

 

 

 

T-rigged plastics (Roboworms, Slug-Go SS, Flash J's, etc)

 

Frogs (Lunk3rhunt, KLT, Spro, etc) 

 

Snagless Sally (in a few different colors, mostly 1/2oz.) 

 

 

 

Been killing it too.  I use other stuff fairly often but these have been producing almost effortlessly so far and so I have been using them a lot.  I fish a lot of heavily weeded areas so weedlessness is pretty important to me.  

For smallmouth...

 

Drop Shot, Tube, Crankbait

 

Largemouth...

 

Drop Shot, T-rig beaver on straight shank hook, swimjig (swing impact or swim-n-shiner trailer)

T-rig

Jig

Crankbait

 

Colors and styles vary as needed.

On the bench - spinnerbait, topwater, soft-bodied swimbait, blade bait, etc.

 

Tom

Spring>Early Summer

1. Fluke

2. Senko

3. XRap

 

Mid Summer>Fall

1. Football Jig

2. Paddle Tail

3. Senko

My top 3 constantly changes, but most recently my 3 most used rigs are the jika rig, bubba dropshot rig and I've caught several keepers recently on a Strike King Caffiene Shad, tx rigged with a 3 gram nail weight inserted in the body behind the hook, so that it drops relatively flat.

This year it's been mostly thus: 

 

 

 

T-rigged plastics (Roboworms, Slug-Go SS, Flash J's, etc)

 

Frogs (Lunk3rhunt, KLT, Spro, etc) 

 

Snagless Sally (in a few different colors, mostly 1/2oz.) 

 

 

 

Been killing it too.  I use other stuff fairly often but these have been producing almost effortlessly so far and so I have been using them a lot.  I fish a lot of heavily weeded areas so weedlessness is pretty important to me.  

 

 

Snagless Sally! There's one I haven't seen in a while. The black w/gold blade is a smallmouth killer! I'll have to dig  through the catacombs and see if I still have a few hanging around.

 

Thanks for the reminder!

 

Tom

Thank you for all the posts here. Was out today and the bass were biting a 2/0 Trokar, T-Rigged with a Yamamoto Black w/blue flake senko. Had a ball.