Tie between topwater (frog, Spook, Torpedo, etc. ALL topwater!) and Texas rigged worm.  Personal preference is either Gillraker or Zoom Mag II.

Dang hard to pick just one. Weightless Zoom fluke though. 

Cabin Creek Salty Critter Jr, 2.5" tube, in green pumpkin blue flake. I rig it on a 1/8oz or 1/4oz Cadman's Smallie Crawlin' jig. A green pumpkin blue Buzz Baits Killer Kraw is a close second though! Depends on what the fish want i spose. 

Now that I think of it, the actual jig is probably my choice, seeing as the plastic varies depending on how well it's working.

 

Bandit 100 crankbait and a Z Man TRD.

tough to narrow it down to one. So I'll go with my favorite way to fish, which is punching mats. And my favorite bait is a Gambler BB Cricket. Junebug or Bowens silver

My three hottest baits that probably caught most of my bass are.

 

1. REBEL BIG CLAW crawfish crankbait, dives to 10’ / floats too. In chartruse color.

2. BPS TOPNOCKER COLOR 25 chartruse.

3. Bomber crankbaits,  fat A / model A size o5 in red apple craw.

 

all the other baits and colors catch bass too but I probably stay with what works more often and constant. My time fishing is limited because of my health. I have to gun and run sort of speak.

Yamamoto shad shaped worm or a luck-e-strike freak series 1. Those two baits are money from late feb to dec for me. But if I’m trying to get a big bit 4 or 5 in senko green pumpkin magic t-rigged or wacky or o a flick shake.

Very tough to pick just one. Favorite style no doubt is topwater...... spook, plopper, buzzbait. Strong 2nd is wacky yum dinger.

#1 top producer for me is a bone zara chug'n spook jr. Catches them all day or night. #2 is a wacky 5'' yamamoto senko, #3 is yamamoto kreature t-rigged with a 1/4 oz tungsten weight. Green pumpkin or junebug colors. 

Going to try an s-waver 168, whopper plopper 110, and keitech 4.8 and 5.8 this year to see if any of these will be as good as my top three. 

1 hour ago, Swbass15 said:

Yamamoto shad shaped worm or a luck-e-strike freak series 1. Those two baits are money from late feb to dec for me. But if I’m trying to get a big bit 4 or 5 in senko green pumpkin magic t-rigged or wacky or o a flick shake.

I’ve been fishing the Yamamoto Shad shaped worm on a drop shot since December and I can not get a single bite. How do you use it?

If they would bite a frog all the time, it's all I would ever fish. But they don't. So I have to use other stuff.

We have caught more big fish on a senko than anything else, but my favorite way to catch fish is anything top water. If I could only pick one I'd go old school and pick a Jitter bug. Some 50 odd years ago I caught my first top water bass on one ( I still have it), and to this day every time I use one, that particular gurgle, gurgle, gurgle of a Jitter bug brings back so many wonderful memories.

                                                Jim 

@Dorado

 

I fish it nose hooked on an owner mosquito hook, or I will thread it on to a roboworm rebarb hook so that the hook point comes out of the back about the mid point. In the spring around the spawn I fish it on a short leader 8-14” in the summer I will mess with length till I get a bite. I will fish it down or up a point, pitch to isolated rock or wood anything I think is holding fish. I don’t video game fish when I ds so some people would say use a Carolina rig but my waters have way to much rock for that. Line is 10lb spiderwire to 10lb yozuri hybrid and I’m using the abu Ike series ds rod.

 

hope this helps.

 

if I can ask what are your water temps, clarity, and species you are fishing for, and what part of the country are you in?

1 hour ago, Swbass15 said:

@Dorado

 

I fish it nose hooked on an owner mosquito hook, or I will thread it on to a roboworm rebarb hook so that the hook point comes out of the back about the mid point. In the spring around the spawn I fish it on a short leader 8-14” in the summer I will mess with length till I get a bite. I will fish it down or up a point, pitch to isolated rock or wood anything I think is holding fish. I don’t video game fish when I ds so some people would say use a Carolina rig but my waters have way to much rock for that. Line is 10lb spiderwire to 10lb yozuri hybrid and I’m using the abu Ike series ds rod.

 

hope this helps.

 

if I can ask what are your water temps, clarity, and species you are fishing for, and what part of the country are you in?

That was very helpful thanks man! I’ll PM you today 

Easy, hair jig with pork trailer

Tom

The OP asked for our personal favorite "lure", then named three...???  OK, I'll give you my three then.

 

1) Jig

2) Jig

3) Jig

 

A-Jay

Buzzbait. Worm is more effective but buzzbait strike is my fav 

Popper. If we’re being brand specific, Chug Bug or Pop Max.

Nothing beats the excitement of a top water hit, but a 1/2 ounce jigs is also hard to beat

Zoom fluke or a wacky worm

 

I really have a hard time putting down a tube. It accounts for more bass then anything else I throw. Probably because I throw that the most. Hence me having a hard time putting it down. Lol. 

Ima Skimmer

On 1/2/2018 at 8:46 AM, scaleface said:

My favorite lure to use is a buzzbait . They are a blast .  They dont catch  the most fish  though . This past summer was a good buzzbait season .

Same for me as far as favorites go. Followed closely by a 3/8 jig. I really love skipping

This week? 1/4 or 3/8 oz Strike King Hack Attack Heavy Cover Swim Jig with Rage Grub trailer, hopped along the bottom. There's something satisfying about the jig bite, especially on braid line. It's the hook set I think, so solid and powerful and definite.