If you were limited to five soft plastic baits to fish for smallmouth and largemouth bass year-round, what five would you choose?

 

I would choose:

 

Yamamoto 5" Senko

Strike King Caffeine Shad

Strike King Rage Tail Menace

Strike King Rage Tail Space Monkey 

Strike King Rage Tail Craw

 

Senko

10” power worm 

Fluke

rage bug

uv speed craw

Frog

Worm

Fluke

Senko

Tube

For both species I would choose:

 

5” stick worm

super fluke

4” beaver

3.5” tube

5” grub

Straight tail Roboworms

8" Magnum Zoom Lizards

Live Magic Shad

Damaki Armor Shad

Scottsboro Tackle swimbaits

Rage Structuge Bug 

YCB Senko

Netbait Paca Craw

Rage Craw

Rage Swimmer 

With 100% certainty:

 

Zoom UV Speed Craw

Zoom Trick Worm

3.3” Keitech-style Swimbait (any brand)

———

Less than 100% certain:

Berkley Pit Boss

Zoom Fluke Jr.

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May supplant one of the above by year’s end:

 

Zoom Z-Drop

Zoom Baby Brush Hog
 

 

Berkley Pit Boss

Zoom Trick Worm

Zoom Magnum UV Speed Worm

Zoom Super Fluke

Z-Man TRD CrawZ

3" Easy Shiner

2.8" Fat Swing Impact

4.5 RoboWorm

5" Senko

TRD

Hmmm. Lol 

Great question ❓

Fluke

Speed craw

Senko

Keitech easy shiner

Robo worm.

 

But I like Brush hogs and Elaztech ?

 

 

 

 

Trick Worm 

Zoom fluke 

Zoom z craw

Brush Craw 

Senko 

Ragecraw

Ragebug in the large size

Yamamoto 6" senko

Gajo Spirit Shad

Berkley Gillies - small ones

 

1-  Zoom trick worm, and Magnum trick worm (  Claiming anglers prerogative, I combined the two in order to get 6 on the list.)

2- Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper

3-Yamamoto 7 inch Senko

4- Strike King Magnum Rage bug

5- Zoom Ole Monster

 

5in Senko 

Trick worm 

Zoom fluke

Finesse TRD 

Menace grub

 

Zoom baby Brush Hog

Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Craw

Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Worm

Zoom Fat Albert Grub

Zoom Centipede

5” paddle tail swim bait

senko

6” spade tail worm

Ned bait

fluke

no specific manufacturer as I make my own baits

 

 

 

Zoom baby brush hog

Zoom 8" Lizard

Strike King 3.5" coffee tubes

Culprit 7.5" original worm - red shad

Yamamoto 5" wacky worm

5 inch senko

3.3 keitech fat impact

zoom super fluke

gambler 6 inch burner worm

gambler EZ swimmer

Here's mine:

 

5” stick worm

Netbait Paca Slim

3.5” swimbait

Netbait T-Mac

Berkley Pit Boss

5” Senko

Mann’s Jelly Worm

Zoom Trick

Neko Macho

X-Zone Adrenaline Craw

Zman HulaStickz

Missile Baits Shockwave

Christie Craw or Yamamoto twin tail grub

Big Bite Baits Craw worm

Fluke

5” Senko/4” Senko

Speed Senko

DShad

Shad Shape Worm

Paddle tail Zako

1. Zoom Trick Worm.              2. Zoom Finesse Worm.         3.Culprit 7.5" Worm.                 4. Mr. Twister Phenom Worm.                                          5. Zoom Critter Craw.                Honorable mention: Charlie Brewers Slider Worm.

5" Yamamoto Senko

5" Berkley Grass Pig

Rage Craw

Berkley Tube

Yamamoto Fat Ika