I mostly fish offshore structure or creek channels, but this past season i got into flipping pads, and bank grass for largemouth. It seemed like i was always using different baits with no consistency. The only ones i had success on was brush hogs and sweet beavers, but i know i can catch more bass on different baits, just not sure what they are. Just wondering what everyones favorite flipping bait is.

Paca Craw.It does it all and comes in some killer colors.

an oversized jig.

baby *** .

I like a few depending on the type of cover. If I'm flippin heavy grass or hydrilla I'll use a gambler crawdaddy or ugly otter t-rigged. If it's pads or sparse grass I like a jig or boogee bait with a big trailer.  The last two don't catch a lot of fish but they are consistent big fish producers.

Big Zoom Tube in green pumpkin on an Owner weighted tube hook.

Recently I've tried the Roboworn Robo-X 4" Sour Puss on a 1/2 oz Booyah jig head that has produced a few fish.  The Sour Puss is bouyant and sits nicely in the bottom - reaching for the sky.

Oldham's Lures Trailer Hitch Jig, 3/8 oz Black/Blue, Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craws in 6 with 2 ½ cut off the tail

Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craws in 4, 5, & 6 in the following colors.

Black Blue

Junebug/Blue Claw

Black Neon

Black Neon Silver Claw

Double Tail Hula Grubs

Sometimes weightless.......the Fat Ika was not the first palm tree to be fished in this manner.    

An old Bobby Garland Hyper Tail Hula thrown weightless is a beautiful sight to behold in clear water.

Other than that, a Zoom Mag II  or an Eakins-style jig.      

ive used eakins jigs this year almost exclusivley. not that i wont use anything else, its just everywhere i have used it i have had success with it. i dont fish any real weedy areas anyway, so why try to replace somthing that isnt broken?

ive used eakins jigs this year almost exclusivley. not that i wont use anything else, its just everywhere i have used it i have had success with it. i dont fish any real weedy areas anyway, so why try to replace somthing that isnt broken?

The most versatile, consistent jig style I've used in life. Shallow, deep, dirty, clear, smallmouth, largemouth, spotted - doesn't matter.....it murders everything in every condition I fish.

I pour my own now.....

Oldham jig with Gene Larew trailer

Baby Brushhog

Crawworm

colors:  

Camo

Brown/Green or Pumpkin

PB&J

Black/Blue

Green/Pumpkin/Orange pinchers

ive used eakins jigs this year almost exclusivley. not that i wont use anything else, its just everywhere i have used it i have had success with it. i dont fish any real weedy areas anyway, so why try to replace somthing that isnt broken?

The most versatile, consistent jig style I've used in life. Shallow, deep, dirty, clear, smallmouth, largemouth, spotted - doesn't matter.....it murders everything in every condition I fish.

I pour my own now.....

Nice!

What are those trailers? They look like the Zoom creepy crawlers I have been using all year?

I use the same style jigs in GP or brown and baby brush hogs in this situation.

Allen

Zoom Big Dead ringeror a Berkley Beast, with 1/2 oz Gambler screw in weight.

ive used eakins jigs this year almost exclusivley. not that i wont use anything else, its just everywhere i have used it i have had success with it. i dont fish any real weedy areas anyway, so why try to replace somthing that isnt broken?

The most versatile, consistent jig style I've used in life. Shallow, deep, dirty, clear, smallmouth, largemouth, spotted - doesn't matter.....it murders everything in every condition I fish.

I pour my own now.....

Nice!

What are those trailers? They look like the Zoom creepy crawlers I have been using all year?

I use the same style jigs in GP or brown and baby brush hogs in this situation.

Allen

Those are Yamamoto twin tail grubs, but I have been known to use Creepy Crawlers as well.  

My favorite is Bobby Garland Double Hyper Tails - - I've got about 200 or so left of them in green pumpkin, so I'm thinking I'm set for awhile there (thanks eBay!)  

I just seem to do better with any good twin tail grub trailer over more static action baits like Beavers and stuff.  Probably because I fish a lot of rock ledges with these things, and they spend a lot of time falling (and consequently "swimming" with grub tails).  

My best shallow water bait, even including flukes and senkos, is a rage craw on a weighted swimbait hook.  That is one lure that has yet to have let me down when facing shallow water fishing.  I keep it tied on until I move into deep water.  Then it's all about the jig.

The RI sweet beaver in green pumpkin/red texas rigged with a 3/0 gam. superline wide gap and a 3/8oz weight is my top producing shallow water bait for stained or dirty water and heavy cover.

For clearer water or sparse cover I prefer a green pumpkin baby brush hog, Robo zipper worm, or one of my eakins style jigs.

I have had a bunch of success this year flipping a green pumpkin 4.25" Yum Vibra King Tube around shallow cover.  4/0 Owner Wide Gap Plus and 1/4oz Green Pumpkin Tru Tungsten weight unpegged.