You're invited to go fishing with me, it'll be Kentucky. It could be anywhere from Dale Hollow Lake, Kentucky Lake, the Ohio River, or a Farm pond.

 

You can only bring 1 type of lure but you can have 2 colors of the exact same thing.

 

So... if you choose spinnerbait, you can have multiples of them in case you lose them, but they have to be identical in size, brand, and blade configuration, with the only variation being 2 different colors.

 

If you choose a soft plastic, such as a Zoom Finesse Worm, you cannot have Trick Worms or other brands of similar design, but you can have 2 colors. PLUS, you must rig it the same way. You can't fish it weighted Texas rigged and then switch to a Carolina rig, or weightless Texas rig.

 

So what do you pick, and does it change if the state/region changes?

A watermelon seed and a white flukes.

Zoom Finesse Worm. Junebug and watermelon.

Booyah pond magic white and purple, chartreuse ZMan TrailerZ on both.

Beaver on a flippin rig. Green pumpkin and black/blue flake.

5 hours ago, Bazoo said:

You're invited to go fishing with me, it'll be Kentucky. It could be anywhere from Dale Hollow Lake, Kentucky Lake, the Ohio River, or a Farm pond.

When? 

 

I need to book time off work! LOL 😆 

Weightless Zoom Finesse worm.  Watermelon seed and black grape.

Watermelon red or bama bug yum dinger texas rigged .

I guess I couldn’t come because I’d be bringing jigs.  Specifically the Jewell Pee Wee in First Down or Bass Whacker and I would have to have some trailers. 

5” Senko. Texas rig. #297 & #956. 

Owner shaky head (3/16 oz.) w/sapphire blue Trick Zoom. (Second color, though I'd probably not use it, would be watermelon red.)

5in Senko Wacky rigged with 1/8oz Berkley Fusion wacky head in black with blue flake and Smoke Hologram Blue Silver Laminate.

This topic has mid winter Cabin Blues written all over it, and we're only in August. 

12 hours ago, Bazoo said:

You're invited to go fishing with me, it'll be Kentucky. It could be anywhere from Dale Hollow Lake, Kentucky Lake, the Ohio River, or a Farm pond.

 

You can only bring 1 type of lure but you can have 2 colors of the exact same thing.

 

So... if you choose spinnerbait, you can have multiples of them in case you lose them, but they have to be identical in size, brand, and blade configuration, with the only variation being 2 different colors.

 

If you choose a soft plastic, such as a Zoom Finesse Worm, you cannot have Trick Worms or other brands of similar design, but you can have 2 colors. PLUS, you must rig it the same way. You can't fish it weighted Texas rigged and then switch to a Carolina rig, or weightless Texas rig.

 

So what do you pick, and does it change if the state/region changes?

 

 

So you're talking smallmouth and largemouth in small and large bodies of water with an entire range of cover and color of water.  It could be sunny days or at night.  The fish might be active or negative.  And you didn't mention time of year.  In order to be versatile enough for all of that, the only answer for me is a ned rig on a weedless setup.  I'm not entirely sure which plastic, but it would probably be just the original finesse TRD on something like a bass union weedless head.  For colors it would be green pumpkin and yoga pants (black).  You didn't specify that I couldn't have markers, so I'd carry chartreuse and hot orange markers for tail tips or belly contrasts.  You'd catch fish if this is all you fished.  I'd also be bored out of my mind and quit fishing.

 

 

28 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

This topic has mid winter Cabin Blues written all over it, and we're only in August. 

 

Yeah, but it was 50 degrees here last night and the fishing has tapered off a little this week.

The bait monkey will not approve of us talking about only using one lure, and two colors. 🤣

 

Lure - Rage menace

Colors - smokey shad, & watermelon red

 

TX rig. They can be rigged vertically to mimic baitfish, or horizontally to mimic a craw.

I'm off the Yum Dinger kick for the time being, too much line twist used as a Texas rig.

 

Now I'm on the Strike King Cut R worm wagon  and I'm bringing June Bug and Plum.

I will bring a helicopter lure, because I plan on borrowing what ever is working from you.

Seven inch t-rigged power worm....blue fleck, and green pumpkin.

16 minutes ago, DaubsNU1 said:

Seven inch t-rigged power worm....blue fleck, and green pumpkin.

I use the 7” powerbait here in motor oil.. I been using motor oil since I discovered some guy in a bait shop selling his home made worms in a sandwich bag , back in 77 lol as I recall 20 for 2 bucks. Killer color for me but often hard to find. 

Zoom fluke Arkansas shiner

Tokyo Rig with a Reaction Innovation beaver. I'd probably go with summer craw and black w/red flakes.

Easy. Strike king bitsy bug jig with a craw trailer. I don't care which. Green pumpkin and black and blue.

 

Why? Versatility. I can swim it. I can fish it slow. Shallow or deeper. Grass rock yada yada. 

Zoom SS-Utail worm, Texas rigged......junebug....watermelon red......

Texas rig Bandito Bug blk/blue and summer craw color. 

GB Airtail-Trophy Hunter and Blk Blu Flk