I think for any body of water, temp, and for all year, I'd throw a 5" green pumpkin stickbait; my choice is the SK Ocho. I'd rig it Texas with a 3/16oz bullet weight on a 3/0, maybe weightless, Wacky or Neko.

With one spinning rod rigged with 15# braid to 10# FC leader, a pack of stickbaits, a few 3/0 hooks, a few light tungsten bullet weights, some Neko style hooks and a few Neko weights.....there is not anywhere I could not fish and catch the biggest bass in that lake.

I would throw a worm, probably a senko style bait. These type of stick baits catch fish year round and can be very rewarding.

Slip bobber and a worm. Boring as all get out but it works for everything, and I've caught some monsters on it. 

 

Artificials. A KVD 1.0 squarebill. Catches everything. 

I'd be throwing some kind of jig.  A swim jig for higher water column.  A war eagle finesse jig, for covering everything else, probably in the 1/2 ounce, with a YUM craw chunk trailer.  I'll be throwing it on a 7.1:1 gear ratio reel, medium heavy rod, 15-17 pound fluorocarbon. 

On 1/29/2021 at 12:34 PM, 00bullitt said:

I think for any body of water, temp, and for all year, I'd throw a 5" green pumpkin stickbait; my choice is the SK Ocho. I'd rig it Texas with a 3/16oz bullet weight on a 3/0, maybe weightless, Wacky or Neko.

With one spinning rod rigged with 15# braid to 10# FC leader, a pack of stickbaits, a few 3/0 hooks, a few light tungsten bullet weights, some Neko style hooks and a few Neko weights.....there is not anywhere I could not fish and catch the biggest bass in that lake.

An Ocho is an excellent stickbait. I throw it on a shakeyhead more than I do anything else with it but I do fish it weightless if I’m in a lake that is pressured. Something about that 8 sided worm will draw strikes when conventional stick worms won’t.