Hello everyone!  As summer approaches here in Texas I plan to do some traveling to enjoy the summer. This got me thinking and heading down an endless path and thought, ok if I can only bring three lures with me to search and catch whatever species, what would they be?  With that said, wanted to see what peoples opinions are on this and what 3 lures would you bring with you if you were traveling to just make sure to catch numbers?  
 

I know all situations are different but this is just hey you’re traveling and see a body of water let’s give it a try with these three lures. 

Any species….. I’ll vote for 1/8 oz beetle spin, curl tail grub on a jig head, and #5 shad raps in silver and gold. 

@LrgmouthShad got it pretty good but I'll suggest some others just for the sake of conversation. 

 

#1 Mepps Aglia

 

09 Floating Rapala

Spinnerbait (in line spinner if only brining a spinning combo)

Senko

Ned rig

 

 

 

1- #3 Mepps, or Vibrax inline spinner, silver, or gold.

2- Original Floating Rapala gold black back

3- Black buck tail jig.

 

With these three lures, you will be able to catch multiple species from Florida to Alaska.

 4" plastic worm

Topwater popper

Shad colored shallow running crankbait.

Covers the water column.

This is awesome info everyone!!!  Thanks

Beetle spin for sure . Some plastic worms and a buzzbait . 

Pop R

UV Speed Worm

Rage Bug

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

1/4 oz gold Kastmaster

1 bag of 4 1/2” Roboworms Oxblood lt red flake worm slip shot rigged with 1/8 cylinder weights.

1/4 oz white spinner bait w/ gold Colorado a silver willow blades.

Medium fast spinning combo.

Tom

Plastics and maybe a few hard baits that you have confidence in, then terminal tackle. I'd personally take one spinning rod as a medium or medium heavy spinning rod can do almost anything species and lure wise

You can catch a fish on a jig on almost any body of water, so it would be wise to bring an assortment of different size jigs in any new place you plan on fishing on vacation. I prefer catching fish on topwaters above all else, so I always bring lots of topwaters when I am fishing in a new place. For the third lure I would add a lure that will work well mid water level or a couple feet below the surface. I hope you catch the fish you are after, and have a fun fishing trip.

11 hours ago, rjasso said:

Hello everyone!  As summer approaches here in Texas I plan to do some traveling to enjoy the summer. This got me thinking and heading down an endless path and thought, ok if I can only bring three lures with me to search and catch whatever species, what would they be?  With that said, wanted to see what peoples opinions are on this and what 3 lures would you bring with you if you were traveling to just make sure to catch numbers?  
 

I know all situations are different but this is just hey you’re traveling and see a body of water let’s give it a try with these three lures. 

Rooster tails in different sizes, or an original floating rapala

16 hours ago, Mike L said:

UV Speed Worm

 

Watermelon Neon (red)

 

12 hours ago, WRB said:

1/4 oz white spinner bait w/ gold Colorado a silver willow blades.

 

Gold willowleaf/ silver Colorado 

 

16 hours ago, Mike L said:

Pop R

 

Bone orange belly 

 

22 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

 4" plastic worm

Topwater popper

Shad colored shallow running crankbait.

Covers the water column.

These would mirror my selections, except I’d go 5-6 “ on the worm. Guess we both fish a lot around heavy cover?

22 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Any species….. I’ll vote for 1/8 oz beetle spin, curl tail grub on a jig head, and #5 shad raps in silver and gold. 

 

When I read the original post I thought how could I get by with just 3 lures but this would be a good choice and work for the waters I usually fish. If I had to make one change I'd replace the Shad Rap with a floating rapala.

Why limit to 3 lures?, a 3600 box and a couple of bags of plastics can travel pretty much anywhere.

Finesse swimbait on 1/4 oz head

Mid diving crankbait 

Dropshot 

 

I travel often and fish, and 3 lures is definitely limiting. I think I would need something to cover all three levels of the water column, probably a casting/arkie headed jig like a Dirty Jigs TL Pitching Jig, probably something with some combinations of brown, orange, purple, black, blue, watermelon and green pumpkin, for a trailer it would probably have to be a Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver, you can handle almost anything on the bottom with this, or swim it, so it covers at least 2 levels of water. For top water I think I'd be hard pressed to pick something other than a whopper plopper,  walk it, do what it was designed to do, use it as a stop and go, also very versatile...bone, munky butt, and one of the chrome/reflective colors. The last one is probably the toughest one for me, it'll be a baitfish imitation, but I don't know if I'd go with a crank, a Rat-L-Trap, or a jerkbait, I am leaning towards Rat-L-Trap. The colors would be a reflective, a bold, and a natural/ghost type color.