Need help. The bait monkey is whispering in my ear that I need more stuff. I'm trying to ignore it as best I can but I'm weak! 

Ive got plenty of soft plastics, worms, craws, Senko, swimbait, frogs and such. 1 topwater popper, 2 spinnerbaits, squarebill, lipless, is there anything as a bank fisherman I should have in my arsenal that I have not mentioned?

Its like going to the grocery store with no list, you wind up buying a bunch of crap!

Thanks

 

Buzzbait jerkbait chatterbait

Jig

Boat? ?

Some crankbaits and more poppers

Chronarch mgl, oh wait lures ? Hmm life can be very hard sometimes.

Wakebaits, whopper ploppers, buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, more poppers...

 

Crap, I’m not helping...

Chatterbaits

Ned Rigs

Curly tail grubs

Worm hooks, ewg hooks, weights, etc

Jig - Swim, Casting and/or Flippin', Shakey Heads, Whopper Plopper  and maybe a Hollow Body Frog.

Hmm... can’t add much to the suggestions above - they all sound good to me. Just a couple of thoughts.

 

Do much early morning/evening fishing?  I’d suggest expanding the surface bait selection, mebbe a black/dark Whopper Plopper type, popper, wakebait, even Jitterbug. (I try to have at least one shiny and one dark (or mebbe “natural” color for different water or lighting conditions.)

 

If you start fishing early in the spring and the water is still cold, mebbe a jerk bait or two ... and I use the same philosophy for color choices as I mentioned above.

 

In general, and this is just from my own experience, I’ve found I get a lot of bang for my buck by expanding the color selection of my confidence lures rather than getting too many new kinds of lures. Again, these are just a couple of random thoughts based on my bank fishing experience - all that went into the dumper when I got an inexpensive kayak! And, yup, that’s a suggestion too!  Good luck!

 

Jigs and tubes. 

No problem.

 

Just walk up and down the aisles and select one of each type and color of all baits offered.

 

Sounds like fun to me.  

Telescopic lure retriever. 

I do a lot of Bank fishing and it can be very limiting, so maybe focus on lures you can better present , based on your shoreline cover and situation. I would consider adding some shallow running hard jerkbaits (1-3ft) to the arsenal you mentioned. Also don't overlook the Strike King Bitsy Bug 1/4oz or Bitsy Bug Flipping Jig 1/2 oz. Those jigs have small profiles and can work well when fishing from heavily pressured public shorelines. Also, a few Inline Mepps Spinners 1/4oz for fishing River Smallies ! 

My friend the monkey is strong. I bought a jerkbait rod the other day and couldn't help but add a few packages of new roboworm ned rig worms. It happens to the best of us, but I have started to actually write a list every off season of all the things I need for the upcoming year.

 

Items that you should look into would be Jerkbaits, skirted jigs both vibrating and regular jigs, and some finesse jig heads for either shaky head worm or even the mushroom head for a ned rig.

Do you still have empty compartments in your box?  Be sure to fill them up with something.  Then, after you've done that, place any extra dividers you may have into your box to create more "sub-compartments."  Then fill them up as well.  Rinse and repeat.