Spring: Siebert Outdoors and NorthStar Swim Jigs (bluegill pattern)/ Rage Tail Menace & Shellcracker trailers

 

Summer: Rage Tail Stucture Bug (Jika Rig) and MegaStrike MegaTube Craw (ShakE2 jig head) 

 

Fall: Chatterbait style blade (white skirt)/ Rage Tail Structure Bug trailer (white)

 

 

 

 

I have always thrown spinnerbaits but this past summer I started using painted blades on my spinnerbaits with great success

My home made jika punch rigs.

Bass Assassin's Bang Lures Tapout Worm

Black/Blue Tail

Jungbug/Blue Tail

Trickster

Cavitron 1/2 oz Buzz Bait, Gold Blade with a Black Skirt

Rage Tail Menace. 

Squarebill crankbait. I caught my personal best on one last month.

6th Sense Crush Flat 75X square bill and deep Drop shotting a Rage Craw.

 

And let us not neglect The Scrounga ~

 

 

A-Jay

Spring: Rapala BX Minnow

 

Summer: Lunker hunt Frog and MB Pop X

 

Fall: Cavitron (why did I not try these before?) and MB Flap Slap

Fall: Jig with Rage Tail Craw/ Lobster

Edit...i mean SK 6xd...

Keep it down, Cold. Lol.

For me it was the jackall crosstail shad...great drop shot bait

Me, too!

Duo Realis Spin Bait 80

 

Gene Larew 4.3" Biffle Bug on a football swing jig from Do-It's mold

 

 

Clear water smallies showed considerable interest in these, especially the Spin Bait.

Keep blabbering about those DS baits and a banning will be coming, lol.

Xtails are probably the most productive bait for me on a DS.

Fat ika was my favorite new bait

Not really a specific bait, but a multitude of baits worked on the new to me wobble head football jigs.

Roboworm 6" texas-rigged instead of dropshot.

My home made jika punch rigs.

 

The Jika Rig has virtually replaced the standard Texas Rig for me.

 

 

 

 

Siebert Brush Head jig in Chartreuse Shad - used as a swim jig

Crankbaits

Jerkbaits 

The Cavitron Buzzbait

Missile Baits Fuse 4.4 on my Mojo Rig

 

Those are two standout "New to me" stuff from this past year.

Fat ika was my favorite new bait

Happy I started using the fat ika too. Better late than never!

My newest addition is the 'Strike King Structure Bug' (part-time trailer on my punch rig)

 

Roger

This fall it was buzzbaits, and this winter it has been a chatterbait style lure.

I still am putting tiny red marks in the jaws of all the same fish. No barbs.  Rebel & Rapala  keep doing the job.  Why change after 40 years ?

Weeds. That's why.