Simple what are your favorite baits to cover water?  Your favorite in the morning/evening and afternoon for every season. 

 Summer:                                       Fall:                                                               Winter:                                                               Spring:

M/E-    Buzzbait or frog                    M/E- Buzzbait                                                      M/E-Big walking bait                                       M/E- Buzzbait

A-big swimbait                                      A- little swimbait or chatterbait                         A- Any swimbait and jerkbait                        A- Jerkbait

Gimme a spinnerbait. There might be a better lure for the job depending on conditions but if I don't have a spinnerbait, I'm not happy. I don't care if it's morning, afternoon, or evening. I don't care if the water is clear, stained, muddy, blue, purple, green, pink. I don't care if the season is winter, summer, spring, fall, or whatever the heck the past month or two has been. 

Xcalibur one knocker. Works all seasons and you can cast it further and cover more water than about anything else.

Long casts looking for feeding fish with moving baits.

Spinnerbaits

Swim Jigs

Buzzbaits - whopper ploppers

Flukes and Assassins.

 

 

Most baits for me are conditions based.
But to just cover water in most situations

I usually start with a Rage Cut R, UV Speed Worm or a RI Skinny Dipper. 
 

 

 

 

Mike
 

 

Swing Impact Fat sees alot of action these days. Ice out till ice over.

Spring time:chatter bait 

summer: crank bait 

fall: jerk bait 

I’m a spinnerbait guy too. Although if the water is colder a chatterbait will work.

Topwaters are my confidence and go to moving bait for bites, larger swimbaits are my scouting tool.

Where I fish, Buzz Bait, August through February.  March - July  Spinnerbait in wood or grass, Crankbaits in rocks.

Spinnerbait so many ways to fish one 

No need for seasons/time of day, my answer is lipless crankbait for all of them. Situationally I will throw a chatterbait instead.

3” paddle tail swimbait on a 1/4 oz ball head jig .

A RedEye Shad, Especially if I'm fishing around weeds. Like a spinnerbait, I can cover the entire water column and it works great for yo-yoing around transition areas.

A lipless crankbait or a heavier chatter bait. It use to be a spinnerbait but as of late nothing will bite one. 

Sonar unit to find bass and lures to catch them where I found them.

Tom

Bladed jig

3.3 Keitech on a 3/16oz head if I'm just covering water looking for fish. M/A/E

Crankbait

A spinnerbait is the first lure that  gets tossed. It's tough trying to change what has worked so well for many yeras.

Probably a lipless. 

11 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

3” paddle tail swimbait on a 1/4 oz ball head jig .

That is fire hear in Texas.

8 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

3.3 Keitech on a 3/16oz head if I'm just covering water looking for fish. M/A/E

 

Spring -buzz bait

Summer -swim jig

Fall - spinnerbait 

Winter - ice auger 

I have three favorites / Spinnerbait , buzzbait and crankbait .

early spring and prespawn: jerkbait, chatterbait, 2.8"-4" keitech on a ball head

prespawn and spawn: flat sided crankbait, wiggle wart, chatterbait

post spawn all the way to fall: chatterbait, swim jig, topwater, jerkbait