Spinnerbaits, jika rig plastic craws, big swimbaits, spook type topwaters.

Senko

Trick worm either weightless or with 1/4 oz weight

Topwater

If I'm at a pond that I know doesn't have a lot of weeds I'll throw some squarebills and rat l traps, but those places are few and far between

Wacky senko, T-rigged baby brush hog, 3.5" Keitech swing impact

Texas rigged worms of all shapes and sizes.  X-Raps in Fire Tiger, Blue/silver,black/silver or brown trout. Skitter pop.

In South Florida most of our banks are highly vegetated, even the approachable areas have submerged veggies like milfoil and hydrilla by the shore and muddy algal bottoms, so gotta be weedless. I like:  1) Zero elastic senko style worms, green or orange, on small Alien Shaky head jig -- shake and hop but dont drag the bottom unless you're trying to harvest algae   2) Weightless Zoom flukes fished slow on flouro, esp when bite is tough, but say bye-bye to hooked lunkers in heavy lettuce unless you stay towards fairly open areas. 3) Gambler EZ Swimmers green or blue on #50 braid burned across pads and through weeds then dropped into holes. 4) Zoom Horny Toads texposed burned across and around green with #50-65 braid. 5) pegged brush hogs, otters, plastic craws dropped through bad salad with long heavy rod and #65 braid

black and blue flipping jig, chartreuse spinnerbait, red/white hula popper.  Probably caught more fish on these 3 baits than all my other lures combined.

Senko

Chatterbait

Hollow body frog

Cranks,poppers, and inline spinners.

Senko

Swim jig

Frog

Worms, spinner baits but the best is the lipless crank bait no more than ten feet from the bank they will slam it just like in a boat. 

 

Old school basser...

The Fat Ika, to me, is the ultimate bank fishing bait. You can cast it farther than just about any other plastic, even without weight, which can be important when stuck on dry land. You can get two different size profiles out of it, too, depending on which end you run the hook through. Reverse is more compact, which can be the difference on those days when it's bright and clear and the fish are spooky.

 

The Spook (Super Jr. size for me) scratches that topwater itch, and if they're hitting one, I'll just fish that exclusively the whole time.

 

I'm not sure what the third is, to be honest, but it's probably some kind of plastic. I love them all so much.

Spro Bronzeye Frog

3/8 oz jig

3/8 oz Spinnerbait

Simple, effective