what do you guys have the best luck with?

 

Here's my top producers (not in order)

 

Havoc Pitt Boss

Missle D-Bomb

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RI Sweet Beaver

I almost exclusively use Gambler Ugly Otters. Other baits I use are Havoc pit bosses and Jackall Cover Craws.

GY Kreature bait

Rage Structure Bug, MegaStrike MegaBug and Siebert Outdoors Big O/ Rage Craw.

 

 

 

DB Rage Craw, Paca Craw, Baby D-Bomb, SK Beavers (both sizes)

Rage craw

My favorites in no particular order are (all Berkley Havoc stuff btw) :

Pit boss

Craw fatty

Devil spear

Slop Craw

Rocket Craw

Those are the obvious choices. But I also have had some great success with experimenting with other baits from the Havoc line that would not normally be thought of as flipping and pitching baits. Like :

The flat dawg, it has put multiple 5lbers in the boat with a tungsten weight pegged to the nose. It slips in and out of cover like a knife and falls like a rocket and has gotten me bit following guys down the same weed bed who were throwing jigs and creature baits and not catching anything. They are flimsy, so be prepared to go through them... But... At $2.99/8ct bag I don't have a problem with that... Unlike gycb senkos which are just as flimsy, not any more effective, yet cost darn near 80 cents a piece.

Also the backslide has worked well doing this to. Peg a light weight sinker, like 1/8th or 1/4 oz to the denser "tail" section.... Basically rigging it backwards from it's intended weightless rigging. If you don't believe me.... Just try it...... And hang on.

If you can't tell, I have become a bit of a huge fan of the Havoc stuff. Imho, they are offering the best bang for your buck in soft baits right now and I have not found anything in their line up that I dislike. I have posted before on how some of their baits don't really do it for me, but then I go out and give them (the ones that I was not wild about) a good honest try and have changed my tune on quite a few of them .

I like the havoc craw fatty or a big bite baits swimming craw, especially up around and under docks and boats.

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Ugly Otter

Rage Craw

Sweet beaver

 

Am considering also trying a Riot Baits Fuzzy Beaver.  Maybe. 

Sweet Beaver

Rage Structure Bug

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Mike

The last couple of years the RI Sweet Beaver or Smallie Beaver have been my go-to pitching plastics.

Pit boss

Space Monkey

Hula Grub

Rage Hawg

Baby Brush Hog

Rage Craw

Zoom Super Speed Craw