5 hours ago, Cak920 said:

You guys prefer plain buzz bait or add a trailer?

it's personal preference and what you have confidence in. I personally don't add a trailer, I always had a trailer hook though. my buddy throws a white zoom horny toad on a black buzzbait and swears by it.

1. Spook, Spook Jr with the rattle

2. Topwater frog (Booyah Pad Crasher and Popping Pad Crasher)

3. Pop R

4. Chug Bug

5. Torpedo (caught 50 bass on it once)

6. Buzzbait

Honorary mentions: Rats, toads, Hula Popper & Jitterbug. And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.

 

I know that's not one, but I love topwaters so much I'd take fewer fish on topwater rather than more on other baits.

 

1 minute ago, the reel ess said:

1. Spook, Spook Jr with the rattle

2. Topwater frog (Booyah Pad Crasher and Popping Pad Crasher)

3. Pop R

4. Chug Bug

5. Torpedo (caught 50 bass on it once)

6. Buzzbait

Honorary mentions: Rats, toads, Hula Popper & Jitterbug. And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.

 

I know that's not one, but I love topwaters so much I'd take fewer fish on topwater rather than more on other baits.

 

I know what you mean. 1 bass exploding on a topwater makes my day.

Zara puppy

Homemade buzzbait.  I know a guy that makes them and sells them to me real cheap.  Idk what it is but whether its at Guntersville where I go once or twice a year or on the rivers down here on the Gulf Coast where I live, it out fishes my Whopper Ploppers or any store bought buzzbait I buy. 

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 8:16 PM, RyneB said:

it's personal preference and what you have confidence in. I personally don't add a trailer, I always had a trailer hook though. my buddy throws a white zoom horny toad on a black buzzbait and swears by it.

I am the same way man.  for some reason I catch more without a trailer and I concur with the trailer hook.  Just fished a tournament this past weekend and got third primarily with a buzzbait. Probably half of them were hooked with the trailer hook only.  Its a must for me unless Im fishing across heavy cover.  Then unfortunately I just deal with the misses

Another buzzbait vote - i like jacob wheeler's buzzbait and always have a trailer on it (rage tail cut r, if i have some).

 

 

 

Heddon Super Spook Jr. Once you learn how to walk the dog you feel a real sense of accomplishment.

 

Close second would be the Whopper Plopper for fish catching numbers and versatility.

Cavitron buzzbait.

 

Honorable mentions: Rapala Skitterpop, Strike King Rage Shad, Heddon Super Spook Jr, Booyah Boss Pop, Various Hollow Bodied frogs

In no particular order, my treble hook topwater preferences: Lunker punker, chug bug, ms slammer, gunfish, giant dog x, pop max. 

Sammy 115 or Popmax.

Easily accessible . . . Arbogast - Hula Popper

 

Can't find anywhere, but have 1 left and it is awesome. . .Hydrilla Gorilla Buzzbait - the loudest topwater lure, I have ever heard, it drives fish crazy!!!!

Some of my favorites ....

 

Got em Coach Floating Bluegill bait

Floating Matt lures Hard gill

7" & 9" MS Slammer 

316 Wake JR.

R.I. Vixen

3" Zell Rowland Xcalibur Popper

1/4 OZ Yellow Magic Popper

Lucky Craft Gunfish

Whopper Plopper 130

 

Heddon Super Spook all day long.

Ima Roumba is one of my favorites.

 

Whopper Plopper 90 did well last year.

PopMax

Strike King Wake Shad

Spro Rat 40

Sammy100

 

On 2/25/2018 at 9:29 PM, the reel ess said:

And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.

 

How does that happen? When I get a new lure it's always the first thing out of my bag the next time I go fishing. For me it's like being a kid on Christmas morning!

On 2/24/2018 at 1:03 PM, Munkin said:

LC Gunfish or Sammy 

 

Allen 

 

Yup!

1 hour ago, Koz said:

How does that happen? When I get a new lure it's always the first thing out of my bag the next time I go fishing. For me it's like being a kid on Christmas morning!

For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again.   Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible.   Count your blessings in South Carolina!!   I am jealous!!

33 minutes ago, Fishin Dad said:

For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again.   Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible.   Count your blessings in South Carolina!!   I am jealous!!

Yeah...  Hard for one to be the first when there are 30 that have never seen water.   I have a rod and reel that have never been used, and yesterday when I was out looking around, the water was still mostly too hard to fish.  The great weather in the next few days may change that.

23 hours ago, Fishin Dad said:

For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again.   Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible.   Count your blessings in South Carolina!!   I am jealous!!

 

23 hours ago, RPreeb said:

Yeah...  Hard for one to be the first when there are 30 that have never seen water.   I have a rod and reel that have never been used, and yesterday when I was out looking around, the water was still mostly too hard to fish.  The great weather in the next few days may change that.

I know the feeling. I have my 2 best rods I bought last fall and only took out once and haven’t caught a fish on them yet. And probably 15 new lures just waiting till may to try them out. 

11 hours ago, Fishin Dad said:

For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again. 

 

Well then, that makes perfect sense. Then again, the few times I went out this winter the fishing was so slow here the lagoons may as well have been frozen over. 

On 2/24/2018 at 7:54 PM, Oklahoma Mike said:

For many, many years it was a Cavitron buzzbait. But the Jackall Pompadour has moved into my number one spot. Honorable mention to the Sammy and the Pop-Max. 

 

 

Hace you ever used a Whopper Plopper?

On 3/1/2018 at 11:22 PM, tcbass said:

 

 

Hace you ever used a Whopper Plopper?

Yes, and I prefer the Pompadour. 

Pop r 

When it gets dark outside nothing beats the gurgling of a big black Jitterbug! When the sun is out I throw Super Spooks or Pop R's. All time favorite is a Jitterbug though.