Soft plastics: 10.5 cranberry yum ribbontail, fish a lot at night during summer and these seem to work almost year round. Hard bait: probably sk 5xd. I have a ton of different cranks and topwater but of a random variety. 

Hard bait, I'm throwing a 3/8 tungsten jig from @Siebert Outdoors . Soft bait its a Havoc Pit Boss/SK Rage bug. Most of the time, the Pit Boss is on the back of that jig.

Bandit crankbaits with Norman crankbaits a close second. Zoom baby brush hogs and trick worms. War Eagle spinnerbaits.

Softbaits, Zoom super salty fluke, packs on top of packs of them. Main color is baby bass

 

Hardbaits, kvd square bills. Lots of them, local river eats em up. Main color red craw

4 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

You’re missing out by not using them. Great, versitile soft plastic. Bring ‘em with next time you’re up this way. I’ll take ‘em off your hands and buy you and the Mrs. lunch. 

Now that's a deal!!

If we go to Bears camp this year we'll take a little detour and come up your way. 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Hardbaits- probably a tie between Strike King KVD jerkbaits and Stike King spinnerbaits, too many to count. 

Softbaits- again, likely a tie between 5” Senkos and Berkley Powerbait Thief’s, awesome little phlipling/pitching baits. 

Wow.  If I had just answered without looking I'd have been wrong.  I would have said War Eagle or Strike King spinners.  I was shocked to find that the winner for hard is actually Rat-L-Traps.  Specifically the red craw.  Granted I've caught a lot of fish with them, but I have so many!

 

Soft baits is hands down lizards.  All kinds, all colors.  Which is stupid because I live in central Illinois where we don't have lizards.  What the heck?  

Lucky Craft Pointers.

2nd would be Keitech swing impact fat.

I have maybe 40-50 bags of Rage Shellcrackers due to some panic buying. I think that will be a lifetimes supply.  

 

 

Zoom finesse and trick worms.

Senkos.

KVD Strike King Sexy Shad crankbaits of all sizes.

 

Bomber long A's

Zoom trick worms

The arsenal is extensive, organized & balanced for what I like to do.

 Hard baits are dominated by Lucky Craft & Strike King.

Soft baits are mostly Strike King, Berkley & I guess Zoom.

A-Jay

 

Soft Plastics ...... Either the Rage Bug, Rage Craw or Rage Menace (I have my share of all three )

 

Hard Baits ...... Although I do not use them much anymore, my life long collection of the Original Floating Rapala would win the numbers game.

16 hours ago, A-Jay said:

The arsenal is extensive, organized & balanced for what I like to do.

 Hard baits are dominated by Lucky Craft & Strike King.

Soft baits are mostly Strike King, Berkley & I guess Zoom.

A-Jay

What is a "Dozer Jig"?  

Yamamoto Kut Tails for me, use them on the dropshot and easily have over 1,000 of the things...

16 hours ago, A-Jay said:

The arsenal is extensive, organized & balanced for what I like to do.

 Hard baits are dominated by Lucky Craft & Strike King.

Soft baits are mostly Strike King, Berkley & I guess Zoom.

A-Jay

Holymoly

1 hour ago, fishwizzard said:

What is a "Dozer Jig"?  

 

That's my name - Box holds two different versions

A FLIP 'N SWIM jig (top) and ALABAMA swim jig (bottom) ~ Both 1/2 oz

A couple of my favorite sort of 'jack of all trades' jigs

Killer designs with a solid hook.

Can be fished effectively just about anywhere I'm likely to need a stout jig

Works in Michigan - Works in Mexico

Almost always have at least one Rigged & Ready

A-Jay

 

 

27 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 

That's my name - Box holds two different versions

A FLIP 'N SWIM jig (top) and ALABAMA swim jig (bottom) ~ Both 1/2 oz

A couple of my favorite sort of 'jack of all trades' jigs

Killer designs with a solid hook.

Can be fished effectively just about anywhere I'm likely to need a stout jig

Works in Michigan - Works in Mexico

Almost always have at least one Rigged & Ready

A-Jay

 

 

Ah, Bassdozer, got you.  He has some great looking stuff, but none of it ever seems to be in stock.  

1 minute ago, fishwizzard said:

Ah, Bassdozer, got you.  He has some great looking stuff, but none of it ever seems to be in stock.  

High Quality & Design are always in demand.

Been a user & abuser of Russ C's baits for a long time. 

That helps.

A-Jay

 

I make my jigs in batches of 100 and have more then I know of.

Order custom color soft plastic worms in 100 bags, keep 17 large Plano boxes full of various worms and creatures, more then I will ever use.

About 50 Huddleston's 68 & 8" swimbaits along with a few dozen wooden models.

Way too many crankbaits, jerk baits, top water lures, spinnerbaits and structure spoons.

I don't know what I have the most of?? Roboworms maybe. Should take inventory!

Tom

 

 

 

Soft plastics: Zoom, by a long shot.

 

Hardbaits: it's a tie between Norman deep baby n's and Rebel deep wee r. 

Gambler ribbon tail worms,4 or 5 hundred at last count. Bomber long-a jerk bait 25 of em.