when all else fails,and it happens. what is the one bait/lure you go to when you need that one fish that will make your day. since I started this my go to is a Manns Baby 1- . can't explain it, but it always seems to come through. so what you all got?

 "When All Else Fails" my fall back is a Drop Shot with either a SK Rage Craw or a SK DB Craw.

Nose hooked or on a tex-posed on thin wire ewg.

 

If this doesn't do it I go to a wacky Senko  ~ ( just Please don't tell @Darren.)

 

A-Jay

 

If you just want a fish on the line, it is hard to beat a 4" senko wacky rigged 

When I can not get bit on ANYTHING ANYWHERE................I head to docks with a spinning rod and a 4"  yum dinger on a 1/16th oz wacky jig. More times than not, after 2 hours of this, I'll have a limit.................they may only be small keepers, but I WILL get a limit on that.

For me it's a Cut R with a 1/16  pegged weight. 

 

 

Mike

finesse worm (zoom or Berkley)

Finesse worm I suppose but normally its not the bait that needs changed its the speed of my presentation.

4 minutes ago, riverbasser said:

Finesse worm I suppose but normally its not the bait that needs changed its the speed of my presentation.

 

Or location

Weightless zoom superfluke

20 minutes ago, Mike L said:

For me it's a Cut R with a 1/16  pegged weight. 

 

 

Mike

 

This year it was a Zoom Ultra Viba Speed Worm Watermelon Neon, 1/8 oz unpegged!

Z man Chatterbait or 5 inch senko

1 minute ago, Catt said:

 

This year it was a Zoom Ultra Viba Speed Worm Watermelon Neon, 1/8 oz unpegged!

Honestly this was a close 2nd. 

I use them unweighted as I only use the Magnum. They're heavy enough for the mostly shallow waters down here. 

 

 

Mike

If I just need to feel a tug on the end of the line a ned rig is hard to beat. But if I just can't figure them out that day I could toss a spinnerbait for hours and hours on end and still have confidence it would eventually get me bit if I just kept hammering the right areas. 

Gotta be a tube, have caught them deep, shallow, docks, cold, warm, you get the idea since I started bass fishing. Other baits have come and gone for me, but the tube is always there. A very close second is a 3 to 5" grub, preferably a kalins, pretty much same deal as the tube maybe a touch less versatile. 

4" wacky rigged Senko

If someone held a gun to my head and said "catch a fish, next cast or else" I'd throw a nightcrawler. Otherwise... A Texas rig plastic worm, probably a zoom u tail color appropriate to the water clarity. 

Baby 1- or Redeye shad.

 

Shakey head with a Zoom ultravibe speed worm. 

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

 "When All Else Fails" my fall back is a Drop Shot with either a SK Rage Craw or a SK DB Craw.

Nose hooked or on a tex-posed on thin wire ewg.

 

If this doesn't do it I go to a wacky Senko  ~ ( just Please don't tell @Darren.)

 

A-Jay

 

 

Yes, yes. @A-Jay is finally warming up to throwing a wacky rig.

I can hear the winds of change blowing...

 

When all else fails... Well, if it is good enough to be the anchor
rig "when all else fails", it's good enough to be the MAIN rig!!

 

That and a drop shot!!

 

 

Merry C! Y'all!!

When all else fails, I tie on an inline spinner and let nature take its course. 

Trick worms, catch numbers and size

The following lures are my some of my favorite lures to catch large numbers of bass in a day;

 

Rebel Pop-R

Hollow body frog 

Spinnerbait

Rapala X-Rap

Zoom Super Fluke

Senko

Fat ika rigged backwards. That or a helicopter lure.

8 hours ago, Mike L said:

Honestly this was a close 2nd. 

I use them unweighted as I only use the Magnum. They're heavy enough for the mostly shallow waters down here. 

 

 

Mike

 

LOL

The Cut-R is #2 & I recently was given Magnum Speed Worms!

A 4" Zoom Dead Ringer(black) on a Seibert Outdoors Zenith shakeyhead.

3" white grub, weight of jighead depends on depth