What are your favorite 3 lures? These are not the ones you catch the most fish on, necessarily, but your favorite to fish. Why are they your favorites? Mine are a buzzbait, a popper and a texas rigged, weightless trick worm. They are my favorite because of the way the fish attack the lures.

• Heddon One Knocker Spook
• Mini Rage Rig (google rage rig then picture a slightly smaller version)
• Bladed Jig (I like an evo or a thunder cricket w/ a zako trailer)

My favorites to throw are a popper, spinnerbait, and weedless frog. Nothing beats the blowup of a topwater strike or when a fish knocks slack into your line as the spinnerbait blades thump through some hydrilla. 

Spinnerbait.

Buzzbait

crankbait.

 

Spinnerbait, because it is so versatile.  It can be fished from top to bottom, fast or slow, any weather, any water temp, day or night, and seldom snags.

 

Buzzbait, because it is the most consistent top water for catching big bass I have ever tried.  If I am catching bass on buzzbaits and poppers, the buzzbait bass are bigger, I don't know why but I do know if they will hit a buzzbait, that is what I'm throwing.

 

Crankbait- because I own hundreds of them, they are fun to fish, and I am a crankbait addict.

@Don Harris  I can't imagine a bait that does not get bites from big brown bass being one of my favorites.  Any thing in that category, is probably not even in the boat.

Either way,  my arsenal size makes it a little tricky choosing just 3 favorites.

But after quite a bit of deliberation, 

and just because the strikes are almost always awesome,

I am going with a spinnerbait burned just under the surface, a bladed jig fished slowly on the bottom and of course. A Jerkbait.

I'm exhausted. 

A-Jay

Crankbait

Jig and craw

Plastic Worm

They are my big three for fishing in pressured water.

Texas rigs because they catch more fish in more places .

Buzzbaits because they are so much fun. 

Spinnerbaits just because.

In no particular order

 

Megabass jerk bait

storm subwart

terminator spinnerbait

Rage Bug

Spinnerbait 

Wacky Worm 

Buzzbait 

Spinnerbait 

Double wide beaver, punch rigged

Jig

Shaky head

Ned

Hollow body frog

bladed jig

jig and craw

Custom hair jig with pork trailer.

Wooden Sammy.

Micheals popper.

Tom

From top to bottom:

 

Heddon One Knocker

Spy bait - Jackall

1/2 oz jig with craw trailer.

1. Jackall flickshake 

2. Spinnerbait 

3. Shaky head 

Buzzbait

Spinnerbait

NED

1 Medium diving flat sided Crank bait like a spro little John md. Silver and olive back.  On a sunny day it will kick the snot out of various species. Makes life very simple. 

 

2 Texas rigging a craw but, particularly a spine craw in various colors depending on day and water clarity. 

 

3 Tube bait either stupid rigged or regular tube jig. Just depends on where I’m fishing.  Color and size depends on a bunch of different factors. 
 

Generally speaking if they are hitting any of those 3 lures. it’s going to be a fun day with little thinking in regards to strategy. 

I'm either throwing a jig or some type of Texas rig both weighted and unweighted.

Magnum UV Speed Worm…

Not only the best in mid depths, but also one of the best on top

 

Rage Bug…

T rig anywhere 

 

Frog…

Obvious reasons 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

 

 

I love a jig bite the most; it has everything...thumps, weird, swimming away, weightless, etc.  Taking 2nd place and increasing in my applications isn't a bait, but the retrieve itself.  In my head I call it tight lining or reel ripping and I've found it very successful with hair jigs, spoons, ball head jigs and straight tail worms, tail spins, and scroungers.  Playing with weight and water resistance to get the correct rof can get you rewarded with the most satisfying "thunk" that allows you to immediately slam home into their upper lip.  It's fun, it's active, and often it'll trigger fish that aren't up for chasing.  That fast to slow(er) seems to trick their lizard brain.

 

scott

 

Below is a 5/8oz jig fished that way.  I was next to someone for 3.5hrs on the rocks and it produced 5/6 fish caught.  It was almost the only thing that worked.

 

Frog Frog Frog

Fluke

Square bill

Spy bait

 

1. jerkbait
2. jerkbait
3. jerkbait

Crankbaits 

Jig 

texas  rig worm

11 hours ago, Jig Man said:

Jig

Shaky head

Ned

Interesting choices. Why the Shaky Head and the Ned Rig? What about the presentations/action from the fish makes them your favorite?