Edit: this isn't a survival situation. This is for sport fishing for bass.

the goal is to catch as many bass as you can and you only can bring one lure.

I wouldn't bother fishing anymore.

senko

 

Yeajray231, your thread makes it seem like one lure in a survival situation (stranded)

 

if i could only use one lure for sport fishing its easily a jig and plastic craw trailer. id go with inline spinner in a survival situation.

4 minutes ago, bigfruits said:

Yeajray231, your thread makes it seem like one lure in a survival situation (stranded)

 

if i could only use one lure for sport fishing its easily a jig and plastic craw trailer. id go with inline spinner in a survival situation.

Mine wouldn't change lol. 

 

The in line spinner has personally caught me bass, pike, channel cat, bluegill, crappie.. if that isn't sport fishing idk what is ! 

If fishing for fish bigger than panfish, it would be  a bullet head jig with a 4 inch paddle tail swim bait.  Color will depend on where I'm stranded.

 

5 minutes ago, Yeajray231 said:

Mine wouldn't change lol. 

 

The in line spinner has personally caught me bass, pike, channel cat, bluegill, crappie.. if that isn't sport fishing idk what is ! 

 

i didnt realize you posted inline spinner in your thread.

 

i enjoy fishing with plastics more than i do with moving baits. sometimes i wont put the jig rod down when i know i should have a long time ago.

 

a senko would be a great survival bait if you only needed one fish. boring as hell to fish though! i use it as a follow up bait mostly these days.

 

Dynamite. 

16 minutes ago, MickD said:

If fishing for fish bigger than panfish, it would be  a bullet head jig with a 4 inch paddle tail swim bait.  Color will depend on where I'm stranded.

 

MickD - that paddletail is going to rip after a few fish! then you have to resort to taking out seagulls with rocks. a homeless gentleman in san diego once told me that seagulls taste like crap.

7.5" Culprit black shad plastic worm fishing for fun.    I'd bring a #4 fly rod and fish a size 12 Wooly Bugger if fishing for survival - catch bluegill all day with that.  

4 minutes ago, jimf said:

7.5" Culprit black shad plastic worm fishing for fun.    I'd bring a #4 fly rod and fish a size 12 Wooly Bugger if fishing for survival - catch bluegill all day with that.  

Love those black shad Culprits but I'd have to go with GY senko.

Either a homemade black and blue or black and chartreuse jig.

My bad for not clarifying but this isn't a survival situation. This is for sport fishing for bass. The goal is to catch as many fish as you can and you can only bring one lure.

Probably a jig. 

I suppose it depends on  the body of water, but the in line spinner has always been good to me. 

Definitely not a soft plastic of any kind because of the durability issue.  Probably a hard lure with treble hooks like a shallow running crank bait.

I'm with gimruis, a 6 or 7A bomber or 7 shad rap. if I could bring a whole bag of soft plastics it would probably be some Zoom U tails since i could texas/carolina rig or easily put on a shakey head.

3 hours ago, bigfruits said:

 

MickD - that paddletail is going to rip after a few fish! then you have to resort to taking out seagulls with rocks. a homeless gentleman in san diego once told me that seagulls taste like crap.

 

No, the paddletails I use last forever.

To catch as many fish as I can I'd bring a neg rig with a TRD. 

Not survival, and for bass: a real GYCB Senko

Wacky rigged Senko... easy choice for me. Gary Yamamoto

Inline spinner or little crankbait.

6" Robo.

 

There used to never be a second thought about this question until that Ned rig came along. Now I have to think about it...

T-rigged 6" black straight-tail worm