Frog in heavy slop.

An unweighted, T rigged, senko in a river.  

Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and any Texas rigged soft plastic.

Stickbaits. Fished wacky, T or C rigged, Neko, whatever.

5" Senkos with the T-Rig.

Numbers : Smaller soft plastics.

Bigger fish: Larger soft plastics

The bait I have that consistently catches both are Zoom super flukes.

So guess what I use the most?

I really want to start throwing more soft plastics but the fish won't leave my Jerkbaits alone.......they've also been roughing up spinnerbaits. 

 

 

Paddle tail swimbaits, lipless cranks, jerkbaits

11 hours ago, soflabasser said:

Bass bite in shallow warm water as well. I have caught +8 pound bass in water less than 5 feet deep during warm weather.

The majority of bass Ive caught over 5 pounds at ANY time was in less than 5 feet of water...

3 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

The majority of bass Ive caught over 5 pounds at ANY time was in less than 5 feet of water...

You know,  me too . I catch   lots of fifteen inch keepers in deep water but the big ones usually come shallow . Every once in awhile though , I'll hook up with one .

worms, worms and oh yeah.........worms.............t rigged, weightless or otherwise.....

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

The majority of bass Ive caught over 5 pounds at ANY time was in less than 5 feet of water...

Bass in Florida like to in and around heavy aquatic vegetation so it is no surprise that many 5 pound or better bass are caught in these areas. 

Swim jig, spinner bait, plastic swim bait(little dipper, keitech), weightless senko.

Swim jigs, soft plastics rigged on a 1/4 oz jig head and senkos.

Soft plastics...Texas rig, Carolina rig, split shot rig and weightless.

 

Also topwater-Walking baits, Frogs, Prop baits, Poppers & Floating Jerkbaits...I throw some type of floating Jerkbait every time I go fishing in any condition, I will modify them to fit situations with suspend dots, swap trebles, file lips etc....

 

I am most confident with either a Rapala Minnow,Jointed minnow for waking, or bomber long a, FLoating Rogue & Bagleys Bang o lure....And the gold/Chart jointed Rebel and a Red Fin. 

 

I recently started throwing the Duel Floating minnows as they have smaller 2-3" jerkbaits that cast a mile with awesome hooks. Also the Daiwa TD Minnow

WHEELHOUSE:

Caffeine Shad

Chatterbait

Neko

Wacky Worm

OUTHOUSE:

Large Swimbaits (tennis elbow)

Deep Diving crankbaits (see above)

 

 

 

 

Jig, t rigged plastics, and crankbaits.

4 hours ago, primetime said:

and a Red Fin.

I have a Rippllin Red Fin . Ever  hear of that one ?  A close friend  caught a bunch of bis bass with them , so I bought one and never used it .

 

 

Edited : I see they still make them .

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If I'm serious about bass fishing I only take two rods - spinning, eight and six pound line, and Texas rigging soft plastics or split-shot soft plastics.  

Spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and a double wide beaver on a punch rig.

I'd choose big swimbaits & frogs for big girls when fishing alone.

Super Fluke, Shakey Head, & petite spinnerbait if I want to show out or have a back seater.

 

I favor a jig more often than not. Only thing that stops me is too much slop.  If conditions are ideal for it, I get out a spinnerbait as much as possible.

 

In the river, I almost exclusively use squarebills.  They catch everything that swims there.

T-Rigged Soft Plastics 

Crankin' 1-10 ft

Jerkbaits

 

Honorable Mention: 

Wacky Rigged Stick Baits

Shakeyhead Worms and Stick Baits

Poppers

 

 

Texas Rig 

Spinnerbait

1/2 oz. jig

 

I'd say those three are what I do best.