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What baits are catching you fish this year?

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Wakebaits

Spinnerbaits

Lipless Cranks

Sweet Beavers

Jig w/paca or ragetail chunk

Buzzbaits

Ragetail Shads

Jitterbugs

Zoom Baby Brushhogs

Zoom U-tail worm

Creatures

Ribbon Tail Worm

Grass Jig

Shaky head

Drop shot finesse worm

Frogs

Spinnerbait

Jerk/Slash bait

Flukes

Wacky Worms

Cranks

Spooks

Buzzbait

Did I miss any?

nope J that bout covers it haha

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Gene Larew 7 ½ Salty Ring Worm: Cinnamon Pepper Neon/June Bug Laminated (Camouflage) & Junebug/Blue Tail

Rage Tail Lobster Junebug

Rattle Head Spinner Bait (until it finally broke): 3/8 oz double willow gold/silver, white/chartreuse skirt

Stanley Wedge Spinner Bait (until it finally broke): 1/4 oz willow/Colorado gold/silver, white skirt

Stanley Wedge Spinner Bait (until it finally broke): 3/8 oz double willow gold/silver, white/chartreuse skirt

Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap: 1/2 oz Red Chrome & Gold/Black Back/Orange Belly

Hart Throb Buzz Bait: Gold Blade & White Shirt

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*** 3.5inch brush bug on slider snagless jig head

5 inch *** wacky rigged

6inch *** Brush Bug on 1/4 football jig head

*** * /weightless trigged,backwards

Old Original Big O, in Bluegill ( paint starting to chip!)

Mann Wake Bait

and one on a Swimbait... too hard for my shoulder to thorw, I am putting these to rest

  • 2 months later...

1/2oz chrome/blue rattletraps and t-rigged baby brushhogs watermelon candy

ZOOM Horny Toad

Stanley's Ribbit

Rebel Minnow

ZOOM Fluke

Cordell Super Spots-Rayburn Red

Rapala Shad Raps-Black/Silver

Bomber Fat Free Shads BD6-Citrus Shad

Carolina Rigged Brush Hogs-Watermelon Candy/Chartreuse dyed Tails

TX Rigged 10" Power Worms-Plum

3/8-1/2 oz. BooYah Boo jigs in Grn Pumpkin or Watermelon Pumpkin dressed in either Green Pumpkin double tails or Green Pumpkin Chigger Craws

My 2 biggest producers so far this year have been a black and blue 3/8oz finesse jig with a 3" Chigger craw and a Berkley Power Hawg 5" in Green Pumpkin.

Later, :)

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Started the year catching them on jigs.  The jigs worked well from March into May.

In May, it became the Rage Tail products and wacky worming which were the top producers.

In June, I got some Jackall Wacky Jig Heads in all three sizes.  They worked very well, and continue to do so.  

The top producer for the year has to be the ShakE2 jig head with a Strike King four inch finesse worm in the coppertreuse color.

Casts a mile.  Tends the bottom nicely, and most hangs are easily freed with the bowstring technique.

The best part is the worms never wear out, nor do they ever get stripped from the hook.  Even pickerel cannot tear them.

They last until the entire rig gets irretrievably hung on the bottom.

wacky senko

In order of #'s caught: Kinami flash 4" char/whi lam., home-assembled spinnerbaits including my own version of "drop dead fred",xps dropshot minno (spring) blk/blue lam. razor worm (summer) on dropshot rig, 1/8 oz. chatterbait with various soft plastics (no skirt), dd22, flat maxx (shallow) in perch, 4" white curlytail grub on 1/8 oz slider head, deep wee r in craw, and bunches of other soft plastics and cranks.

top so far has to be the jointed rapala (black on silver) for me....

classic bait, that still does the trick.

close second with white paddle tail mud minnows rigged with a keel weighted SB hook.

KVD Perfect Plastic Game Hawg(Watermelon red flake)

Zoom U-tale Watermelon seed

Super Fluke Watermelon seed

Cavitron Buzzer early in the morning

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This has been my best fishing year OF MY LIFE!!! I discovered Rage Tails this year. Coincidence? I don't think so.

I try everything plastic (100's of bags.)  Creatures, worms, etc...   But for 30 years, every year, I always use and catch bass on 7" grape curly tail worms, mostly Culprit.  If I had to pick a bait that I had to use for the rest of time that would be it, FL-rigged with a 1/8 oz bullet.

in no particular order...

spinnerbaits

buzzbaits

spro bbz1 shad

ragetail shad

ragetail toad

spro bronzeye frog

bass magic soft plastic swimbaits

jig n lobster

c-rigged lobster

jig n flappin hog

c-rigged yamamoto kreature

senko on a drop shot

Mann's -1

roboworm on a shakey head

berkley crazy legs chigger craw on a shakey head

brush hog weightless and on a shakey head

at least those are the main ones...

X-raps

x walk 13

craw tubes

spinner baits (thanks Glenn)

some on shaky head, spot remover jig with a manns jelly worm.

to find 'em: Lethal Weapon II swim jig with 5" fat albert grub

to mop 'em up: Rage Tail Craw, 1/4 oz t-rig

#1: 5'' Trick Stick, T-Rigged w/o weight

#2: 5" Trick Stick, Wacky Rigged

#3: Heddon Tiny Torpedo

#4: Storm Sub Wart, waked on top

#5: Storm Subwart, Crashed through laydowns

#6: No-Name Crankbait, Cranked around trees

#7: Yo-Zuri Hardcore bass wakebait. ( Killer)

#8: Storm Thunder Dawg

#9: 5" T-rigged Trick Stick, 1/8oz weight( CASTS A MILE :))

#10: Booyah Pond Magic Spinnerbait, White with Berkley Powerbait 2.5 inch grub, white as a trailer

#11: Strike King Mini Pro Buzz, Firetiger.

Their are more if ya wanna know............................. :;)

I used to experiment alot with new baits but not so much anymore.   I truly believe that with LMB finding the fish is the key, what you throw at them is secondary.  So I have been sticking with  the old reliables that seem to work year after year with an occasional new bait thrown in for diversity.

That would be in no particular order

ratltrap

horney toad

senko

7" culprit

chug bug

rico popper

zara spook

speed worm

king shad

RC 1.5

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After the May jerkbait bite died down, the Jackall Cross Tail Shads have been my best producer this year.

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