1. Ned. Under 1/8th and smothered in megastrike.

2. Anything in the Maxscent Line. T-rig, drop shot, shakey head.

3. Siebert Fogy with a rage tail trailer.

4. Some type of swimbait on a flashy swimmer.

5. Hopefully whatever I decided to tie one.

Whopper plopper

Wacky senko

Small-ish swimbait

Jerkbait

T rigged whatever craw 

 

I'm confident, around here, that fish will bite these.

This is supposed to be a year round list but I only fish from mid April to mid October so it's my year.

1. Senko in green pumpkin

2. 1/2 ounce vibrating jig in green pumpkin with a green pumpkin paddletail trailer

3. squarebill, Lucky Craft in Ghost Gill

4. 3/8 ounce white and chartreuse spinnerbait with a white paddletail trailer

5. 3/8 ounce brush jig in green pumpkin/black with a green pumpkin super speedcraw trailer

Number 5 was a tough choice because I had to leave out a drop shot bait and a topwater.

Well if I take 5 rods on my kayak, I will likely have something like the following rigged up..

 

1) Dropshot or Ned Rig

2) Jig and/or T-Rig

3) Spinnerbait

4) Squarebill

5) If I don't have a jig and t-rig, you a jerkbait or popper would be likely.

1. Bandit 200 crankbait

2. Spinnerbait

3. Baby Brush Hog

4. Trick Worm

5. Centipede or Grub

1) 5/16th finesse jig with zoom super chunk Jr

2) 1/4 oz bluegill swim jig with menace grub

3) 3/8ths spinnerbait double willow or double Colorado depending on conditions ie.water color,temp,weather

4) weightless T-rig senko style bait or fluke

5) toss up between Ned and shaky

 

1) Creature Bait

2) Senko

3) Square Bill

4) Chatterbait 

5) Whopper Plopper

14 hours ago, Bigbassgrubslayer said:

What are you guys' top 5 confidence baits that you know you can almost always catch a fish on. You need to be able to do it in the wind and in the sun and during any time of the year. 

 

My 5:

Small colorado spinnerbaits (3/8 oz and less)(yellow and black or chartreuse and blue)

Bomber square A (apple red crawdad or baby bass for very pressured, clear water areas)

Yamamoto senko (fading watermelon or gp purple copper flake)

Berkley power grub (black for pressured areas and firetiger for when fish are active and not finicky)

Strike king bitsy bug jig (1/4 oz)(watermelon or cajun craw)

I like Yamamoto 330 other then that nothing above.

Tom

Night Fishing:

ShellCracker G2

Whopper Plopper 75

Beast Coast Miyagi

Black/Blue Project Z Chatterbait

Berkley Champ Swimmer

 

Day Fishing:

MegaBass Dark Sleeper

T-Rigged Chigger Craw

5" Caffeine Shad weightless

Shallow Crank bait

MegaBass Hazedong Shad 4.2"

1-Super Fluke 

2-Shaky Head  Buckeye Spot Sticker Pro with a Zoom Finesse/ Trickworm

3-Whopper Plopper 110/130

4-Spinnerbait

5-Jackall Gavacho frog

 + Over 60 degrees I'll have my 6" to 9" Bull Shad tied on

Zoom super flukes

Yam. Senko

zoom UV speed worm

zoom baby brush hogs

Culprit worms

Honorable mention:

Trick worms

Big bites craw

Speed craw

Zhogs

1/4-oz pegged T-rigged rage bug, green pumpkin

5" GYCB senko weightless T-rigged

KVD dream shot on a drop shot

1/4-oz finesse jig with a zoom lil critter craw trailer

Lastly, its a three way tie between a chatter bait, spinner bait, or a squarebill crank bait.

1. YUM Dinger, weightless Texas rig.

2. ½ Ounce BOSS GK Flipping Jig with a YUM Craw Chunk.

3. 6th Sense Crush 50x Squarebill

4. Dropshot; Roboworm 6" Straight Tail, Missile Baits Bomb Shot, and the discontinued YUM Kill Shot.

5. 3.5" YUM Pulse Swimbait

On 2/12/2021 at 8:22 AM, InfantryMP said:

I like this topic. Mine would be:

1. Chatterbait (Black and Blue has been the best for me)

2. Creature bait T-rigged (Okeechobee Craw is my fav)

3. Paddle Tail with underspin (White Pearl, or Shad color)

4. Stick worm (whacky or T-rigged) I like Watermelon red, Black and Blue, and a Blue / Green pearl

5. Lipless crank- (I have caught a ton on white, red, and sexy shad)

I have been thinking about trying the underspin with a white paddle tail. What kind of underspin do you use? Paddle tail type and size?

Try a Sworming Hornet with a LFT Live Magic Shad.

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Fish_Head_Spin_Underspin/descpage-SHFHS.html

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Lake_Fork_Live_Magic_Shad_Swimbait/descpage-LFLMS.html

Jig

Tube

blade bait

ribbon tail worm

crank

Lately, boot tail swimbaits have been making a strong attempt to oust the tube.

Spinnerbait 

Suspending Jerkbait 

Weightless Senko 

Super fluke/assassin 

Drop-shot Roboworm 

1) finesse TRD on a 1/16 oz jighead

2) 5”-6” stickbait

3) Double Willow Spinnerbait

4) 3”-4” soft plastic swimbait

5) Swinghead

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And the last one's a tie ~

 

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A-Jay

 

 

 

 

Great response!

 

   You didn't ask how big, and you didn't specify where I'd fish. So ......

 

   1) Eppinger Dardevle Spinnie, in chartreuse or hammered nickel.

   2) #5  Mepps Aglia, in silver, firetiger or pink platium.

   3) 3/4 oz. Johnson Silver Minnow in silver, with a white spinnerbait skirt for trailer.

   4) Zoom Salty Super Fluke in baby bass.

   5) Rapala CRR5 Crankin' Rap, in silver (disc.)

 

   jj

1. 2" White power grub

2. 7" blue fleck power worm

3. Chartreuse spinner bait

4. Black buzz bait

5. Rainbow trout colored 6" Slug-Go

1.  Ned Rig year round.  Z-Man TRD PB and J or Coppertrues 

2.  Whacky stick bait.  Weighted or unweighted, depending on the mood.  

3.  Bladed Jig.  Either Z-man or Siebert.

4.  Original Scum Frog - $3, look like crap, fish love them like no other frog.  Try them.  

5.  A cheap-o Bass Pro Shops square bill.  It dives 1 foot max.  I have caught more on it than all other cranks combined.  I have had it for 5+ years...It came in a bundle of 4-5 cranks.  I don't think you can buy it outside of the bundle. 

 

I forgot about zoom fluke, pearl white....I give it honorable mention I guess but it should probably be number 5.

Zoom Fluke weighted owner 4/0 hook 

Googan bait bandito bug texas rigged 

 Cavitron Buzzbait 

War Eagle 3/8 Spinner bait 

Lunker hunt Frog 

 

On 2/13/2021 at 8:47 AM, braden said:

I have been thinking about trying the underspin with a white paddle tail. What kind of underspin do you use? Paddle tail type and size?

I use 3.3 or 4 inch paddle tails with just a basic underspin hook like this.

 

I use rage swimmers, mostly. They work well with about any paddle tail.

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Vike_Tungsten_Bladed_Swimbait_Hook_1pk/descpage-VIKEBS.html