Frog................I throw it year round, in a wide array of conditions. Waking cranks would be #2 probably, but buzzbaits are making a comeback for me though. I own few traditional treble hooked topwaters anymore.

Hollow Body Frog and Buzzbait

Yo-Zuri Banana Boat lures & buzzbaits.

Rapala Skitter Walk

Storm Chug Bug

Megabass Pop Max

Pop r

 

Magnum Pop r

 

Rebel poppin' frog

Heddon Torpedo, Spit N Image & Rebel Pop R if its open water. Zoom Horny Toad or Senko (yea they can be used for top water) if I'm throwing it on top of weeds. 

Super Spook

Rapala Skitter Pop

Stanley Ribbit Frog

Zoom Horny Toad

 

Finally broke down & bought a whopper plopper. Looking forward to trying it this spring. 

The original excalibur spit n image.  I only have 2 of the originals left but the current heddon ones work fine too.

I could throw my livetarget frogs all day without catching a fish and still have fun though.

-Buzz bait as long as it's black or white 

 

-Stanley ribbit 

 

- black Spro poppin frog 

13 hours ago, Smallieseeker said:

Black jitterbug and a close second would be the rebel pop r!

Same here.  If the bass don't hit a jitterbug or a pop-r, they usually aren't coming up to the surface.

Hollow body frog or buzzbait.

hard to beat a buzzbait. it covers water, normally gets hit by the aggressive ones, it's pretty weedless, has a decent hookup ratio 

PopMax in Python.

River2Sea BullyWa2 

Evergreen Showerblow

Megabass PopMax

 

Super spook jr, buzzbait, torpedo and pop'r

  bone colored Pop-R is number 1, then a G-finished, red head and white bodied baby sized spook, and a chrome and black scale finished torpedo,.... both come in a close second

 All with better hooks and o-rings if need be.

 But,...I like a j&p on pads too

Tough question but I would have to say the Jitterbug followed very closely by buzz bait and rebels pop-r.

Live Target blue gill.  It's a fun bait to work and the hits are awesome.  I'm not a huge fan of straight retrieve baits.  I like to work a bait and feel like I'm enticing the bites rather than just reeling.

 

For best results I've found you have to turn the hooks up and use a froging rod.

Sammy

Super Spook

Shower Blow 105

Buzzjet

Sammy 85 in MS American Shad. Casts like a dream and catches good quantity and quality of brown and green fish. 

 

Xrap-walk 14 in glass ghost. Discontinued, originally a saltwater bait. Basically a big one knocker spook that looks just like a large shad. Not big on the Xrap colors but glass ghost is perfect for topwaters. 

 

Reaction Innovations Swamp Donkey ( I bought a bunch for $2.00 a piece years ago).

 

 

Any 3/8 black buzz bait with decent components 

 

Scum frog. An underrated bait. Much more subtle and less likely to spook shallow fish than other frogs. Wish the hooks were better. I bend them out a bit with pliers.

 

Once or twice a season in late summer I break out the old crick hopper popper. The hooks are bad but it's a really fun bait when the time is right.

My favorite top water is a white Live Target field mouse. Love everything about that thing. I also like a Devil's Horse on windy days. That's gotta be the oldest, most chewed up lure in my box, it was my dad's actually. 

pop x, small frogs, and cavitron buzzbaits is most of my topwater fishing.

 

frogs are probably my favorite with the pop x close behind.

 

i just rcvd some Megabass Anthrax topwaters - looks like they will test my rod skills! I wonder if "Oh Ashota!" (1:39 mins) means what I think it does.