What's going on guys? What's your go to bait and favorite bait to throw?

my personal favorite is a frog. Hands down a frog is the most exciting way to fish for me. Next is flipping a kinky beaver. Otherwise I love throwing a swim jig or spinnerbait. 

Go to when the bite is tough is a weightless senko around weed lines. I don't know why, but I can go all day walking around a lake catching nothing and tie a senko on and just do work. 

I agree one hundred. Go to is senko just because of the different ways you actually can fish it (weighted, whacky, weed less, top water, swimming, etc.) and I've had the most success with it. Frog by far is the most fun. Nothing like a top water strike!

A jig if I'm around heavy cover, a bladed jig if I'm not. 

Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Craw

Go to on a tough bite most likely finesse, drop shot or split shot a power worm.

Ned rig, unless the bass are very active, then I will usually go for a jig or bladed jig.  Most people think that Midwest finesse style baits only catch small fish, but that's not true.  Although they do catch small fish, they also catch big bass to.  I have caught (and weighed) bass up to six pounds on the TRD.

Go to bait to me means when the bite is tough and nothing else is working. For me that is a senko type bait. Nothing gets bites when the fish are negative. It can be fished shallow or deep so you can find the fish where ever they are.

I'll take dinks and runts over getting skunked. Have had many days and had to settle for small bass. But, they were bass.

Booyah Spinnerbait or a Black/Blue Jig with a zoom super chunk...

frog for topwater, flipping a jig into heavy cover or wood and swiming a chatterbait

The black zoom trick worm. Works for me!

29 minutes ago, Centralinfinnesse said:

Ned rig, unless the bass are very active, then I will usually go for a jig or bladed jig.  Most people think that Midwest finesse style baits only catch small fish, but that's not true.  Although they do catch small fish, they also catch big bass to.  I have caught (and weighed) bass up to six pounds on the TRD.

Love fishing the Ned Rig... Solid bait..

Give me a ScumFrog or a Pad crasher on a hot day in a shaded cove and I'll drag one of those through the muck all darn day.  love it.  Second is a Red Shad or Pumpkin seed Fat Max on a swing head jig working weedlines or dropping them next to stumps.  3rd would be an H&H Spinner.  9 times out of 10 you'll find me working one of those

Anything green in the 3.5-4" size on a dropshot.  If there's fish, it will bite it.

There is nothing more fun than catching bass after bass all day, no matter the size.

Ribbit frog as long as it has a red pearl bottom 

Black spro popping frog 

speed craw, d bomb, cut-r worm 

humdinger or rumba doll spinnerbaits 

 

My goto is a technique!

Give me a sack of bullet weights, straight shank hooks, some type of plastic.

I'll Texas rig it weighted or unweighted

I'll fish it on top, mid-depth, or on the bottom.

I will kick bass.

Hard question because my go to bait depends on time of yr and what water depth we start in which will determine what I start with. Or one of the baits on either of the 10 rods layin on the deck. This answer better explains my thoughts.

River fishing = Yum Crawbug or Bandit 100 bounced off of rocks, which one depends on the time of year

On the lake, I would have said a tube before last year, but by the end of the year I was always chucking a swim jig and caught fish both swimming it and bouncing it off bottom. The swim jig I use has a flat bottom head, so it stands up pretty well so it allows me to do double duty.

Senko

T-Rig baby rage craw, or drop shot w/ robo worm. 

Catt is dead on the money, I also believes technique means more than which bait to use.

If nothing bitting Texas Rig, 6-10 inch worm, 1/8 Water Gremlen Split Shots and almost always a fish. 

But for most fun is definlty the frog every time out always have a frog ready to go.

Rugby swinging head with a rage lizard, a 1/4 fish head spin with a white ice swimming fluke Jr(if the bass don't want it usually the stripers/hybrids will nail it), 1/4 Johnson silver minnow with a 3 inch curly tail on it

49 minutes ago, Catt said:

My goto is a technique!

Give me a sack of bullet weights, straight shank hooks, some type of plastic.

I'll Texas rig it weighted or unweighted

I'll fish it on top, mid-depth, or on the bottom.

I will kick bass.

Hard to disagree with this... good post...

My go-to bait is a wacky rigged 5" YCB Senko. I have a set-up dedicated to this and always have it with me. But it's definitely not my favorite way. My favorite bait is a topwater like a popper or spook-type bait. Nothing beats a blow up on the surface.