I don;t knwo about you guys, but I have a few lures I catch almost all of my bass on. Not in any order, they are spinnerbaits, soft plastics(various kinds and presentations) and topwaters(hardbait)

75% of the time I'll be using one of the above mentioned lure types, but I also like crankbaits, jerkbaits, and buzzbaits.

I fish mostly shallow water, and from the shore alot, so these baits seem to be very prouctive in getting the bass to strike, espcially in the summer when vegetation and algea mats come in full.

I bring this up becuase with the new season approaching, many of us are going to go out of our minds shopping for new lures, and keeping in mind the lures you use the most and have the most productivity with, will help you when you pacing up and down the aisles to focus on the right lures, and not to buy everything you see.

Set 'em hard and reel 'em in.

My most productive lure all around is a jig.

Others that have been good to me:

1/2 oz. Accent spinnerbait

6" finesse worms

10" ribbontail worms

1/2 oz. Rat-L-Traps

Chug Bug

Rapala DT16

100 & 200 series Bandit cranks

Shad Rap 7

Tubes

5" Yum Dingers

I believe I could fish almost anywhere, anytime with these lures.

Rapala Original Floater #11 Silver

*** Salty *** 5 inch weightless t rigged or wacky

Cranks; Dt's ,Bomber 8a's,Norman dd22's and Storm bigbass :CRAWFISH COLORS WORK BEST FOR ME

Jigs: I have just started , a late bloomer so to speak. I like to use *** Brush Babys and Beaver Craws in dark colors on Jig heads that have no weed guard and skirts. I suspect they will eventually be one of my best baits as I learn more.

For me is a White spinnerbait with 2 blades (silver col. in front spinning, and a sliver willow leaf blade in back).

For plastics Mr Trusted, the GY Senko or for finesse applications like drop shots and shakey head the Zoom Finesse Worms work great.

For Crankbaits, the Rapala Shad Rap in either a yellow perch color, shad, or bluegill pattern, the Original Rapala in a minnow color size F-5 or F-7, and a Mann's Minus One Crank in either a frog, yellow perch or minnow pattern.

For Spinners nothing beats a Red Eye Special in Chartreuse and White or Chartreuse and Green by Strike King with a dual willow blade, or single colorado paired with a willow blade.

I haven't worked jigs much in my fishing career but I'm growing fond of the Jig-X models with matching Jig-X Trailers, or Strike King Bitsy Jigs for swimming applications matched with a double tail grub made by none other than GY.

And for deep cranking or covering all parts of the water column and many applications you can't beat a Rat-L-Trap.  These are the weapons I never leave home without.

For Smallmouth I normally use a Riverside white single tail grub on a Gamakatsu size 1 or 2 straight shank hook, or I use Venom Tubes in Pumpkin or Watermelon, or Cherry/Black rigged with a Gamakatsu Tube Head Jig.

jig w/trailer

zoom trick worm on split shot rig

fluke (SK Zulu or Zoom Super Fluke)

I will use a shallow crankbait more often than anything these days, and in fact would rather throw one around bushes, etc. than a spinnerbait.  

Seems like I'm in the same boat as a few other anglers. I see a few posts where spinenrbaits and plastics are up on their best lure list. No suprise though, those two lures alone have probably caught they majority of bass ever.

I always have these strung up.

Rapala jointed shadrap JSR-5 & JSR7 (craw colors)

White fluke

Storm Chugbug

Strikeking Bitsybug

But if I money in a tournament and someone ask's what I use it was a Mepps Cylops flouresent orange

Top 10 in order:

#1 Fat Ika

#2 6" Senko

#3 Micro Munch Tackle El Gordo Tube

#4 GYCB Kreature

#5 Cavitron Buzzbait

#6 Micro Munch Tackle Jig/ GYCB Kreature or Flappin' Hog trailer

#7 Yo-Zuri RatlN' Vibe

#8 Norman Fat Boy

#9 Lucky Craft Pointer

#10 Lucky Craft Sammy

Honorable mention: Mattlures Baby Bass

Focus for 2008: Larew 7 1/2" Salty Ring Worm

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This is a thread I have saved that might be helpful, too:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1143177139

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All depends on the time of year and what phase the fish are in, I would say 40% of my fish come on jigs. So it would be my most productive bait.

Gary Yamamoto senkos for me, fish love em'!

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1) Fat Ika

2) *** 5" Sticks

3) *** Duper Fluke

I couldn't find fat ikas on bass pro ... where can i find the mysterious lures?

I couldn't find fat ikas on bass pro ... where can i find the mysterious lures?

Look at BPS for the Kinami Palm Tree. Same bait, different packaging.

I couldn't find fat ikas on bass pro ... where can i find the mysterious lures?

Look at BPS for the Kinami Palm Tree. Same bait, different packaging.

Thanks!  I'm going there tonight ... I want to buy some new stuff.

1. 6 inch senko

2. 6.5 inch kut tail fished weightless like a senko

3. Luckycraft Pointer 78

4. Yo zuri rattlin vibe, LV-500, Aruku Shad

5. LC gunfish 75

6. Roboworm pitching craw midnight up and down

7. Roboworm fat strait tail 6 inch

8. Cavitron buzzbait in the size with the smaller blade

9. Deps spinnerbait 1/2 ounce (only had one and lost it last weekend)

My favorites are Senkos, Strike King Zulu, Rapala Shad Rap, Rapala DTFAT, rooster tails.  Thats really all I catch fish on ... I need to broaded my horizons this summer.

The most productive for me is the Zoom finesse worm rigged wacky. They are not my favorite, but are the bass's favorite, I just give them what they want. 2000+ bass last year said so.

In No Special Order

1. Jigs w/ a Yum Chunk trailer

2. Creature baits flipped/pitched into cover, or dragged along top weeds, specificly GYCB Kreatures, Zoom Brush Hogs, Yum Wooly Hawgtails, Reaction Innovation Sweet Beavers.

3. GYCB Kut-Tail 5inch

4. GYCB Senko, Yum Dinger, Waveworms (all in either 4-5 inch)

5. GYCB Fat Ika

6. Scumfrog

7. Stanley Ribbit

8. Rapala suspending jerkbait

9. Topwaters, mainly jitterbugs, heddon tiny torpedo, booyah buzzbaits, storm chug bugs

10. Spinnerbait (white/chart or white)

The bait I can always seem to get bit with though more than anything else is a 5inch GYCB Kut-tail in cinnamon brown or Greenpumpkin, I don't even use them too much, I use them as a last resort when nothing else is getting hit, the reason is the sunnies tend to bite them too and if you set the hook on a sunny bite they'll rip the tail and I can't get GYCB Kut-Tails anywhere around here so I have to order em. Thats why I only bring them out when absolutely neccessary, mainly spawn  .

The jig w/yum chunk definetly comes in as 2nd though.

In no particular order:

4" Gary Yamamoto Senko

LC pointer 78

Zoom Finesse Worm

Roboworm Straight Tail

1/4 oz. Cavitron Buzzbait

Zoom 5" Lizard

LC RC 1.5

1/4 oz. Strike King Premier Plus Spinnerbait

Zoom Baby Brush Hog

New favorites for this year: LC Sammy 100 and Karu Finesse Jig w/ Paca Chunk

in order....

1. Strike King 3X Zero rigged weightless

2. GYCB 6" Senko rigged weightless

3. Zoom Super Fluke....weightless

4. Rapala Shallow Shad Rap, I believe its #7

5. GYCB Swim Senko

I'll be focusing on jigs and swimbaits this year

1- 5" Senko, weightless, Texposed

2- Fat Ika, weightless, reversed Texposed

3- Swim Senko, texposed, weighted and weightless

4- Big Kahuna Cuttail worm, T-rigged

5- GYCB Hula grub, on a jighead

6- Super FLuke, weightless, texposed

7- Berkley Power ribbon worm, T-rigged, or on a jighead

8- 1/4oz single willow spinnerbait

9- Shad Rap

10- Zoom tube, texposed, weighted internally

 Black and Blue jig with blue craw trailer.

These are on the end of the line for every outing and I will stay with them unless things are working out.

1. 5/8 oz black/blue jig

2. Hudd Bug: Blk/blue-green purple or brown purple)

3. Deps Buzjet: Black-Glass cat or Real Blue gill

4. Lucky Craft Gunfish: Ghost Lake Mead-MS MJ Herring-Rainbow

5. 5" Senko: Smoke w/ blk flk--#214 and watermellon