LC 65 pointer...

1/4 ounce lead jighead with a white grub, caught more different fish on this than anything... nothing comes even close.they will catch anything and work almost all the time...

Zoom baby brush hog, either watermelon seed or big Texan

I'd go with an 1/4 oz Arkie jig and change trailer with the depth; from twin tailed hula grubs in the column and power worms on bottom structure.

1/4oz black bucktail hair jig. It'll catch anything, anywhere.

For bass: 5" Yamasenko

Skinny Dipper soft paddle tail swim bait (houdini)

Mike

 

Ditto except I would go with the Bullfrog color.

Booyah Pad Crasher. I live for that top water strike.

Green Pumpkin magic Ultravibe Speedcraw. It is my favorite bait to c-rig, and makes a great texas rig too plus so many other things

Sexy shad colored spinnerbait. I can fish slow or fast deep or shallow with it.

Has to be a topwater...buzzbait most versatile

6" Zoom Lizard in Green Pumpkin w/ chartreuse tail (Spike-it)

Bullet/ 3.0 Gama EWG

It would have to be a swimbait. Probably a basstrix. Maybe a big hammer and I could use or make some weedless heads. If it was a hardbait and I could make it pretty weedless or the most part then it's a s-song

i'd take a 8'' Hudd ROF 16 in rainbow trout or a Canyon Plastics 4.5'' frog in green pumkin swirl ...

i'd take a 8'' Hudd ROF 16 in rainbow trout or a Canyon Plastics 4.5'' frog in green pumkin swirl ...

 

Your really making it hard on your self with the ROF 16. You have to cut it open and take out some lead and its kinda a pita to do sometimes. It does help to have that picture that shows where all the lead is in the different ROF's. I would go with a 5 and nail weight it

White/Chart double willow gold/silver blade 3/8 oz War Eagle spinnerbait, no doubt. 

Storm Wildeye Swim Shad 3", or a classic 5" Green pumpkin worm.  Don't know if I could make that decision without flipping a coin.

Your really making it hard on your self with the ROF 16. You have to cut it open and take out some lead and its kinda a pita to do sometimes. It does help to have that picture that shows where all the lead is in the different ROF's. I would go with a 5 and nail weight it

i don't fish them in the water column , i fish them on the bottom , VERRRRY SLOOOOWLY !!! , the extra weight keeps them down where i want the bait on a long cast without it nosing up on me .

Green pumpkin Senko

easy for me - 1/4oz arkie jig head with a yamamoto double tail hula grub.

I would not quit the hobby (but would sell about a dozen rods).

i don't fish them in the water column , i fish them on the bottom , VERRRRY SLOOOOWLY !!! , the extra weight keeps them down where i want the bait on a long cast without it nosing up on me .

I think everyone crawl the bottom with them. I dot have deeps Cali lakes that I fish and throw hudds in places that might only be 5' deep or even less at time. A lot f time a ROF 12 or something will dig to much. Even the 5's don't always want to stay down enough but I can easily add weight. Just putting a tear drop sinker on the bottom ring works great and still keep the bait in balance so it falls perfectly level.

I'm going to say a jig n pig there is no off season it works all year. Colors may vary from molting, to mating to your average area color.

I think everyone crawl the bottom with them. I dot have deeps Cali lakes that I fish and throw hudds in places that might only be 5' deep or even less at time. A lot f time a ROF 12 or something will dig to much. Even the 5's don't always want to stay down enough but I can easily add weight. Just putting a tear drop sinker on the bottom ring works great and still keep the bait in balance so it falls perfectly level.

i fish them off deep drops and depths of 20-35 feet , so even after a 60 yard cast , in deep water your still not too horizontal with the bait , causing the bait not to dig . i fish a variety of ROF soft trout baits , but have the best fish hit when fishing deep and super slow . if i were to fish 5-8 ft. of water i'd throw the Savage Gear  Shallow runner3D trout in trout and hitch patterns , those baits work !! 

Jig and Pig....black on black in black

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