If you could only have one lure/plastic for the rest of your life but you had unlimited of it what would you choose?  Be specific like colors and stuff.  Mine would probably be a spro topwater frog in the bullfrog color even though i can't really fish it year round the blowups on it are amazing.

No contest.  A 5" Senko in color 297 (Green Pumpkin/Black Fleck).  I have caught bass in every type of water from tannic in Florida to crystal clear in Wisconsin and Michigan and stained on the Potomac.  I wrote an article for Yamamoto years ago and I came up with 78 ways to rig this bait.  I never hit the water without it.  Anywhere.  

This guy right here. I use a lot of different baits all season and there’s others I’d likely get more fish on in some instances but I’ve caught more big smallies and largies on this ( or something very similar) over the years than on anything else. Also, I just love that monster thump when a huge smallmouth absolutely hammers it and near takes the rod out of my hands. Fun stuff right there. 

Is it that time of the year again? ?

17 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

No contest.  A 5" Senko in color 297 (Green Pumpkin/Black Fleck).  I have caught bass in every type of water from tannic in Florida to crystal clear in Wisconsin and Michigan and stained on the Potomac.  I wrote an article for Yamamoto years ago and I came up with 78 ways to rig this bait.  I never hit the water without it.  Anywhere.  

I have to agree with @TOXIC on this one - though I don't exactly like fishing a stick bait.

And @Darren. Don't even start . . . . 

A-Jay

Just now, Catt said:

Is it that time of the year again? ?

Apparently.

A-Jay

I'd quit fishing.

^ this was almost mine, exact same color, but in a 4". 

 

Since I'm a multi-species guy, 3" Berkley Powerbait Power Grub in Pumpkin Seed or White. I can't pick one color over the other since one resembles a craw color and the other ties to shad. This grub on a jig has personally landed me  smallies, bucketmouths, walleyes, saugeyes, channel cats, crappie, bluegill, rainbow trout, and white bass. It's so versatile within the water column. One can effectively work it as  a search bait for suspended fish to or a slower, jigging presentation off riprap areas. The spectrum is so wide. 

 

Honorable mention: 2.5 " Black Shad Gulp! Alive! Minnow on a chartreuse Roadrunner. 

 

I want to say frog because that's far and away my favorite way to fish. But I live in Ohio and would like to fish all year, lol. I'd have to say Senko out of pure versatility. There's tons of ways I can present a senko to a bass 

 

Edit: color would probably be green pumpkin

1 hour ago, ratherbfishin1 said:

If you could only have one lure/plastic for the rest of your life but you had unlimited of it what would you choose?  

 

1 hour ago, Catt said:

Is it that time of the year again? ?

 

 

Yellow hula popper. . . .maybe won't catch the most, but I like fishing those. I grew up loving to fish em and I still really enjoy it.

Lipless crank bait 

2 hours ago, Catt said:

Is it that time of the year again? ?

It is in Northern Indiana!!

I'd pick carolina rigged pink buzzbait

7 minutes ago, CroakHunter said:

I'd pick carolina rigged pink buzzbait

Killer pre spawn tactic. Have you ever tried punching a squarebill?

Plastic stick bait, Senko, preferably #912.

I'd probably have to go with a watermelon red baby brush hog. Extremely versatile and a proven slayer in my neck of the woods. I suppose if it came to it I could burn it on top like a frog(ish) to feed my topwater fetish lol

jig of course, black or white

If I was forced to only fish with 1 lure for bass I would fish with the lure that has helped me catch most of my big bass.

Hands down! Live Target Topwater Sunfish.

Helicopter lure.

Last time I seriously respond to a topic like this

I'd definitely have to go with my pink drop shot rigged deps 250, it's killer year around. Rig it with a 5lb weight and you can smash it straight through ice in the winter, or punch with it in the summer. Go with a 1lb weight for a more finesse approach. 

7” Tequila Sunrise power worm

I'm surprised not one of you hillbillies suggested dynamite

2 hours ago, Dtrombly said:

Killer pre spawn tactic. Have you ever tried punching a squarebill?

No but I have wacky rigged a whopper plopper