Topwater:  Zara Puppy, Rage Tail Menace

 

Shallow:  Norman Fat Boy, MegaStrike Strike or Siebert Outdoors Cosmic Spinnerbaits;

Chatterbait/ Rage Structue Bug trailer

 

Medium depth:  Red Eye Shad; Silver Buddy; GYCB Kreature

 

Bottom:  Rage Tail Craw & Baby Craw, Rage Structure Bug Jika Rigged;

GYCB Senko & Fat Ika; Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Magic Shad

 

 

 

For me it's not so much what - but where.

 

A-Jay

Isnt this just a copy and paste from the reply you always use on threads that ask for most productive baits or favorites?

Topwater : Lunker Lure , Bomber long A

 

Shallow : Rogers Big Jim , various Spinnerbaits

 

Medium : Rebel Deep Wee R , Rapala Fat Rap , Bomber Model A , Norman Deep Little N 

 

Bottom: Rattle Trap , Spinnerbait , Blades , Little George  anything that sinks .

Topwater - Livetarget frog

 

Shallow : Academy CRS Squarebill

 

Medium : Red Eye Shad

 

Bottom : Pit boss, jig

Senko for shallow to deep. Most numbers but not the biggest. Wacky or Ned rigged

For numbers, I have to have a 3" soft craw on an 1/8oz head.

In a word, jigs.  I like topwater and stick worms, even tubes which I fish a lot. Bottom line is I catch more fish on a jig/trailer and it only gets 1/3 of the action of the others.

senkos towards the bank, then tap tap tap.  great numbers, but size and weight can be questionable using this method.

Araku shad in wild shiner

For numbers it would have to be a zoom finesse worm in green pumkin.

For numbers of big fish nothing comes close to a jig and pig. I've caught more big smallmouth and largemouth in my life on jigs than all other baits combined.

Senko

TX rig, wacky rig, weightless...'nuff said!

Weightless soft plastics, lipless cranks

Strike King Spit-n-King/ LiveTarget or Spro frog 

Rage Tail Craw

Jig & Craw

Top--Rage tail toad

 

Med--Rapala DT6, Storm Arashi Rattling Square Bill

 

Bottom--N/A (going to to change that with some jig fishing this year).

Top water: buzzbait, Padcrasher

Med: Spinner w/ gold and silver willow blades or rebel craw

Bottom: Venom blue craw w/ triggerX flappin craw

GYB hula grub gets bit...a lot. Catches big ones too. My first handful of PB's came on a hula grub.

I've caught more bass on a roostertail than anything else I've used this year, 2nd place is a chug a bug.  Pretty much the only 2 lures I'm using.  Would I have caught as many on other lures, probably.  It isn't the lure, it's where I'm it casting to.

The Ned rig. swimming it,dead sticking it,dragging it,hopping it.

Rooster Tails for dinks.

Lots of dinks.

From top to bottom it was a Senko last year.

Top: Weightless Senko

Medium: KVD 1.5

Bottom:  4-inch finesse worm with a split shot.

Strictly numbers LMB- c-rig trick worm.

Nothing else is even close for me.

I catch more fish than anything else on a bone spook Jr- but that would be counting inshore fish also.

For me wacky rig senko or t rigged ribbon tail.

For numbers it would have to be a zoom finesse worm in green pumkin.

Same here for numbers. We caught more bass of this worm wacky rigged then anything last year. It was nuts. Biggest was 5lbs3oz