Alright I lied. One more favorite bait thread. Favorite C Rig and T rig bait and free rig. Size, color, amount of weight, depth fished, hook, pegged, unpegged, and cover structure fished. Bait Monkey is making popcorn for this one

T rigged…Gene Larue 5” black unpegged salt craw ewg hook 3/16 sinker

T Rig is a Z craw or Rage Bug or Rage Craw Fish Rivers for Smallies most the time.

C Rig is a Brush Hog or a Yamamoto Hula grub.

I want to try the Rage Hog Haven’t got any yet

Rage Bug. All day every day that fish are relating to any cover on any structure. Start with 3/16 unpegged. Adjust up and down from there if necessary.

Riot Baits Fuzzy Beaver has been my go to for years and it flat out produces.

As far as Carolina rigging goes, absolutely the floating lures are best in my opinion. The sinker being dragged a lot of times kicks up silt and debris, and so the floating lure that comes up off the bottom slightly really helps especially if the water has any stain to it.

But even in clear water, that drag followed by a pause and a lure that gradually floats up into the fishes face can be lights out.

There’s a number of floating lures that I’ve used over the years, but the one I get consistent results on is the big bite baits flying squirrel. Those floating back two legs really help. Bass Pro Shops "Floatin' Lizard" is another option too.

Rage bug is great a the missle baits d bomb. Are probably my favorite besides some kind of worm. Love a big ribbon tail in summer.

Carolina rig? I don’t have a coffee cup that hasn’t been washed in 20 years or enough packs of smokes to hang with them Carolina rig guys

T rigs only. 3/16 to 1/4 oz. tungsten bullet weight, 4/0 to 5/0 Gamakatsu EWG, Rage Craw, 5” Senko, Zoom Trick, Zoom Lizardor Mann’s Jelly Worm.

2 of mine. its not the only thing I throw but its the top 2.

DBomb

Rage Bug

Weighted (1/8-1/4oz):

-Berkley Power Worm (Green Pumpkin/Chartreuse tail)

-Zoom Ultravibe Speed Worm (Green Pumpkin Magic)

-Zoom Lizard (Watermelon Candy & Junebug/Chartreuse tail)

Weighted (1/4-1/2oz)

-Rage tail Space Monkey (hard candy & green pumpkin)

-Gambler Burner Craw (Green pumpkin/chartreuse claws)

Weightless:

-GYCB Senko (Green pumpkin, GP chartreuse tip)

-GYCB D shad (Smallmouth Magic)

-Zoom Fluke (Green Pumpkin Magic)

-Strike King Ocho (Green Pumpkin Candy)

All t-rig. I don't c-rig.

A 1/8 oz, unpegged weight with a Ultra Vibe Speed Craw. Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Red, or Black w/ Red Flake depending on the water clarity.

Rage Bug all day. My most used hardware would be a 4/0 EWG Gammy, a 5/16oz tungsten bullet unpegged. Usually I’m pitching to downed timber on steep banks.

I Texas rig everything and its hard to narrow down a favorite. Yum Dingers get bit pretty good. Been using the Cut-R worm a lot the last couple of years. Historically Jelly Worms have caught more bass than everything else. Then there are tubes. Kind of difficult to Texas rig but they get chomped.

Favorite Carolina rig bait is a zoom 8 inch magnum lizard in black grape and my favorite texas rig bait is a Crush city bronco bug in Watermelon red

Carolina rig: Speedcraw hands down

Texas rig: Pit Boss or Senko

For a C-rig, I find it's hard to beat a Zoom 6in. Lizard.

Worked uphill on a point, down a bluff, in cover or just about anywhere you choose, a T-rig with a 6in.-7in. ribbon tail worm with a sliding weight, as light as you can and still maintain contact. If I need to go small, I break out my tubes.

The Rage Bug is just a proven T rig bait for me. I run a Sieberts tungsten weight around 5/16 oz. An Owner Jungle EWG in 4/0 and pegged gets it done. 420 works everywhere.

C rig will be a 1/2 ounce oval sinker, a bead and a 30 inch leader attached to a Gamakatzu EWG in 3/0 to a Bitters twin tail lizard in green pumpkin.

T-Rig (weightless): Deps Cover Scat

Free Rig: OSP Dolive Beaver

Favorite T-Rig - Right Bite Baits 4" Flipping Tube - Black/Red Glitter, Green Pumpkin/Red and Green Glitter, or Black/Blue Tail - Mustad 4/0 Big Mouth Tube Hook - I'll start with a 5/16 oz. tungsten slip sinker but I'll go as light as 3/16 oz. or as heavy as 3/8 oz. depending on how the fish are reacting on a particular day. I also always insert a tube rattle.

I don't fish a Carolina Rig very often but when I do I'll use a Zoom Lizard or a Bitter's Bait and Tackle Salty Hog (a beefier version of the Zoom Baby Brush Hog)

T-rig NIKKO 6” shakey worm in earthworm

4 0 Gamma hook with 1/4 to 3/8 tungsten weight

Carolina rig, Zoom 6” lizard

3/4 oz weight with beads, 3’ leader