I think the most overlooked bait is the inline spinner. It can be still very productive.

What do you think?

GYCB Fat IKa & Kreature, Rage Tail Eliminator & Shad and MegaStrike MegaBug & MegaTube Craw.

a grub.

Weightless Trick Worm for me. I have a buddy that kayaks with me and only fishes when he's with me. It's the only lure he uses and he catches them regularly on it.

 

The ol' T-rigged worm. I even usually overlook it in favor of a craw. At one time I'd caught more fish on the plastic worm than all other baits combined.

Dynamite....

 

or a tube of some sort.

Senko....lol

Craw Worms; Texas Rigged, Rage Rigged, or Carolina Rigged!

Chatterbait

Pork trailer

Scronger head

Mike

a grub.

 

 

 

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Deer Hair Popper, Bass Bug (fly fishing for bass).  Fly fishing is my go to finnesse technique for bass.

Good old SNAGLESS SALLY!

Young un's down here haven't even heard of it.

Pork Chunk trimmed on back.

1.Good Ole jig,with uncle Josh on it.

2.Black lizard /chartreuse tail.

3.Single spin spinnerbait/ brown&orange skirt.

Just to name a few

T Rigged Worm

I think the most overlooked bait is the inline spinner. It can be still very productive.

 

I agree that it's the most underrated, but I think the grub is more productive.

With the grub I remember seeing the older experienced guys using them.

Remember a decade +++ ago when the culprit worms with there colored tails where the hot ticket?

The pros killed it this year and last using big spoons (flutter spoon, magnum spoon, etc) but I never see anyone locally or on forums talk about using them to catch any bass.

Grubs, tubes, and ribbon tailed worms are as good as they ever were, yet have seen a sharp decline in use (around here). I myself am guilty of not using tubes much any more, but over the last two years the grub and ribbon tailed worm have returned to my arsenal with gusto.

The pros killed it this year and last using big spoons (flutter spoon, magnum spoon, etc) but I never see anyone locally or on forums talk about using them to catch any bass.

I don't have the structure to fish spoons. Most of my lakes are very snaggy with timber. There are a couple spots I want to try though

Other than what's already been mentioned.

I'd say a good ole black Jitterbug for me

The Rogers Big Jim . Its so underrated they went out of business .  I've had tremendous success with it the past four years in both quantity and quality .

Spoonplugs

 

I'd say anything that the pros aren't currently using tends to be underused. 

a grub.

 

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I'm with you on the in-line spinners as being underrated. Those and beetle spins. Not what I'd consider a big fish baits, but when it comes to numbers those are the two 'hard' baits that come to mind.

Tube has served me well

Tubes or regular ribbon tail worms. Neither gets talked about a whole bunch but both will catch fish in nearly every condition.