What’s your most versatile lure? And by versatile I mean no matter what season, water temp, conditions,etc what is the lure you can always reach for and be confident that it will produce...?

Spinnerbait for me. Catch them on one from late march til mid November most years.

Jerkbait, with the jig snapping at its heels.

Tube for me with Smallies. 

If I have to go with a single lure that always can work, I would say a T-Rig. A spinnerbait might be pretty close. I could say a jig but just Saturday I had rigged up a football head jig figuring it would be appropriate for the rocky slope I was fishing but as it turns out there were so many leaves in the water that the football head picked up every single one on the way back to the point I focused on the spinnerbait on my other rod, so in this case the wrong head broke it for me.

Jig 

 

Magnum Speed Worm 

 

 

 

 

Mike

25 minutes ago, Hewhospeaksmuchbull said:

Jerkbait, with the jig snapping at its heels.

X2

Jig with a craw trailer. 

Spinnerbait for bass.  Inline spinner for bass as well as other species.

Texas rigged trick worm or Yum Dinger.

 

I will add, I am a recent convert to jerkbaits, and I think they might make the list very shortly as well.

For largies it is a weightless GYCB Senko 

 

For brown bass It is a Z man craw deadly Nedly or a jerkbait

Senko

 

39 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

For largies it is a weightless GYCB Senko 

Same here. Either wacky or T rig. Mostly wacky. 

Jig and a Ned rig are 2 things I always have rigged up.

Ned rig, and its not even close

Bandit 100, Tube, grub especially 5" Kalins, and Yum Crawbug. Those lures have me covered.

12 hours ago, heavyduty said:

Tube for me with Smallies. 

I second that! 
 

little Cleo spoon works all year as well 

11 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Same here. Either wacky or T rig. Mostly wacky. 

 

I tried a wacky senko a few times but could never fish it slow enough.... I saw an Ike video recently and he talked about fishing them with a light weight like 1/16 so he can fish them faster.  I may give that a shot.

Definitely the ned rig for me, specifically a 1/16 oz jig head and a TRD.

Tube for smallmouth and a wacky stick worm for largemouth.

53 minutes ago, ajschn06 said:

 

I tried a wacky senko a few times but could never fish it slow enough.... I saw an Ike video recently and he talked about fishing them with a light weight like 1/16 so he can fish them faster.  I may give that a shot.

The vast majority of the times that I've got a wacky rig tied on, it's tied on with either a 1/16 or 1/8 weighted hook. First tried it with a slip sinker and wasn't really feeling it. Picked up some weighted wacky hooks from one of the sales that Woo! ran, and it became a lot easier for me to understand the presentation. Seems like I get bit more often, too…which is nice.

A spinnerbait, hands down.

No such thing.   If I start telling myself that "bait X" will work under all conditions, that I ALWAYS have confidence in it, the only person I'm fooling is myself.

14 hours ago, ajschn06 said:

And by versatile I mean no matter what season, water temp, conditions,etc what is the lure you can always reach for and be confident that it will produce...

I dont have that lure .