im stocking up my tacklebox and i want to know some of your favorite lures you use to catch bass.

I must say the best luck I have ever had was with spinnerbaits for the most bass caught in a day which continued thoughout the season but for the biggest bass caught around here and fun to fish is the devil horse swimbaits are always fun .....the others are top secret  8-)

senkos are a top producer - if you're starting to stock up I'd recommend going with a cheaper alternative like waveworm...so that you can get a lot more colors and sizes without killing your wallet. not to mention the fact that senkos tear very easily. these work as well as senkos in most situations and are a lot cheaper. they have both salt and anise impregnation and are only slightly harder than a senko..they tear almost as easily. those are the big differences.

spinnerbait - one of the most versatile lures. I like terminator's spinnerbaits. grab a chartreuse, white/chartreuse, black, white and one with your best local forage. (for me that means a perch pattern).

finesse worm - for this I use a shad or smelt color laminated 4-5" roboworm. sometimes going to a split shot or drop shot rig will produce fish when nothing else will.

power worm - too many choices on this one and I have several. I'd describe it as a 7-10" worm with plenty of squirm. one of my mains is a berkley powerworm in 10" size. it has cut ribs to produce a lot of action and also a curly tail. (motor oil color)

other soft plastics I can't live without - baby brush hogs(zoom), lizards in a couple sizes(berkley), yum crawbugs, fat grubs, hula grub and fat ika (yamamoto), swimming senkos (yamamoto).

shad rap type crankbaits. I keep some in shad, perch, craw and firetiger colors. I have some other colors for more specific applications - ghost colors, bright colors for things like salmon, trout, steelhead, and some in flash foil. I use rapalas for this - only a couple are cordell, etc.

jigs are another mainstay. try and get 2 of each size to start and make those 1 of each color that you prefer. (2 - 3/16 to 1/4, 2 - 3/8 to 1/2, 2 - 5/8 to 1 oz.) you could pick up jigs larger than 1 oz., but it really depends on your area and experience. I don't really think they're necessary at first unless you're fishing okeechobee, lake fork, toledo bend or something similar. I use home-made and booyah jigs at the moment.

jerkbaits - I use yo-zuri crystal minnows, rapala husky jerks, one spro prime minnow and a smithwick rattlin'/suspending rogue in chrome. only one of my jerkbaits isn't a suspending type and it's for wacky, super-fast, erratic moments. I think a suspending type is key to have in all your main jerkbaits.

other things like swimbaits, lipless crankbaits (I only use in spring), berkley alive minnows (great for fishing smaller males off beds or getting limits), inline spinners(smallies either love or hate them depending on the day), fat cranks(no real luck with these for me in colorado...I keep them around for out of state trips), super spook & super spook jr.(a lot of bass are truly "spooked" by these around here and these ending up working better on pike for me than bass in most cases - sometimes they'll nail the junior, though), buzzbaits, roadrunners(sometimes the only thing a bass will bite around here), etc. - they're all things I love and use, but are limited by season, lake conditions, etc.

I tried to keep it more simple and ended up giving a huge list.  > yet I'm sure I forgot several things.  ;D

My favorites are:

-Solid black jig with an Ocachobee Craw colored Rage Tail Craw

-Watermelon/Watermelon Chartruse jig with a Summer Craw colored

Rage Tail Craw

-* *** on a 1/4oz regular ball jighead

-Strike King 1/4oz white/chartruse spinnerbait

-Bandit Footloose in firetiger or a shad color

-Rage Tail Shad in several colors

-* 5" Trick Stick in watermelonseed

-Rage Tail Frogs with keel weighted hooks

-Rage Tail Craws on keel weighted hooks in every color

Trick worms

Finesse worms

senkos

                           -searoach

Reaction Innovations Sweet Beavers and Terminator T1 spinnerbaits are two of my favorites.

My favorite new bait this year is the Strike King Redeye Shad.

/first post, hello everyone.

Welcome aboard!

Here are some ideas:

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

8-)

In no particular order:

In line spinners, usually Mepps

Spinner baits

Senko type worms from various companies

Curly tail grubs on jig heads

Gulp Alive leeches on jig heads

Silver original floating Rapala

Night fishing, black Jitterbug is the only thing I take