Hey guys,

I just wanted to see what everyone used the most and liked throughout 2011. See if you can come up with a top 3!

My top 3...

1. Zoom Trick Worms (pink)

2. Rapala Jointed Shad rap (baby bass)

3. Good ole Heddon Zara Spook (black and white)

PB

Mostly the same as last year. Out of the 1176 fish that I caught in 2011, exactly 800 (how about that) were caught on lipless cranks, ribbontail worms, or 5" grubs.

Rage Craw

3/8 oz black blue jig with rage craw trailer

baby rage craw

shadalicious swimbait

Northstar Pro Series Jigs, Alien Head - Black/Blue, Perfect Brown Craw; tipped with either a Rage Tail Lobster or Chunk.

Northstar Swim Jig (heavy wire hook) - Black/Blue; tipped with a Rage Craw

Rage Craw

I know exactly what my best for 2012 are going to be...

Stanley Ribbit

Berkley Ribbon Tale 4" (as dropshot bait)

Original Floating Rapala

1. Baby brush hogs

2. Rage tail anaconda

3. Cotten Cordell Big O shallow cranks.

95% of my fish came off of these 3 lures. The first two were rigged with spot remover jig heads.

1. Zoom Super Fluke jr.

2. Yum Dinger

3. Zara spook

Berserk Baits Slop Jig

Zipper Worm Jr.

KVD 1.5 Gizzard Shad Crankbait

Little John DD

Northstar 3/4 Ounce Spinnerbait- Unnamed color

Northstar 1/2 ounce Premier Jig- GP Candy Rage Lobster Trailer.

Best Producers:

Yamamoto Senko 5"

BPS X2 Shimmy Worm

Berkley Power Worm 7"

Favorite:

KVD 1.5

Vision 110

Rage Craw

Spinnerbait

H2O Squarebill

Senko

1.) XCalibur XCS 200 Foxy Shad. I caught (5) 4+ lb's, (2) 5+ lb's and (1) 6+ lb (my PB ever) on this bait this year plus a ton of good fish in tournaments. This was really my go to this year.

2.) Terminator T1 Titanium in white skirt with silver flake, silver/black head, large silver willow, small brass willow. My favorite bait of all time probably. Caught two 4+'s in tournaments on these this year plus got big bass in an Ohio River tournament with a fat smallmouth on this bait.

3.) Football head Jig. Just started trying to fish jigs in earnest this year and did pleasantly well. This has to be my number 3 because for the first season in my life I finally have some confidince in these and caught a few good fish on them. Did best with Booyah in various sizes and really prefer the greenish pumpkinseed color with a dark green Berkley Chigger craw trailer. Boated a few keepers in night tournaments and caught a few nice pond bass.

SK Redeye Shad

Rage Craws

Swim/Football Jigs

Senkos

1- Strike King KVD 6XD Crankbait (Big Bass producer for 2011 Fall)

2- Senko's (post spawn through summer bread and butter soft plastic)

3- Netbait Baby Paca Craw (Prespawn bass slayer)

Senko Bama Bug

Woody's blk/bl jig w/RT baby craw okeechobee

SK Bitsy Minnow blk/blk chartruese

1. KVD 1.5

2. 6xd & 5xd

3A. Reaction Innovation Sweet Beaver

3B. Strike King Rodent

Same lures as 2010, and 2009, and well....as long as I can remember.

Senkos produced the the most, but perhaps I fished them the most.

Lake Fork Majic Shad produced the most violent blow ups and bigger bass.

Black/blue Dirty jig fell between the Senko and LF shad.

1. 7" Powerworm

2. Strike King Rodent

3. Rage Tail Space Monkey

Jigs

Buckeye Mop jigs in PB&J and Northstar swim jigs in blue and black, and bluegill with Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer.

Livetarget 3/4 oz hollow body frog

SK pro series 1 chartruse shad

zoom watermelon seed 6" lizard

runner up:

yum 4.25 wooly bug in smoke red pepper

Lake Fork live magic shad on a scrounger head

Bandit 100 various colors

Senko 5" pumpkin w/black a green flake

Top three:

1. Spro Poppin Frog (Most fish caught, two tourney wins, 1 top 5 and 1 Biggest Bass of the Tourney award 5lb 7oz. Also responsible for the first ever smallie I have caught on a frog. I have caught a ton of smallies but never on a frog before)

2. All Terrain Jig & NetBait Baby Paca Craw (My Biggest Largemouth Bass of the year 7lbs 3oz, not to mention several 3 to 5lbers, Biggest Smallie of the year, 4lb 5oz)

3. Booyah BuzzBait (This was a total shocker for me. I had tried Buzzbaits before on and off over the last 20 years but never really had any luck with them and then all the sudden in 2011 I could not keep the bass off of them if I wanted to. Second largest bass of the year came on this lure 6lbs 4oz. The dang thing also, believe it or not, caught me two bluegills that did not like this racket running over there beds. Small little buggers with bad attitudes. LOL)

Close runner ups:

10" Strike King Rage Anaconda. Would have made the top three list if I would have bought enough of them. Great worm but don't last for more then a couple fish at most.

KVD Silent 2.5. Bought them late in the season and caught many bass on them this past fall.

1) Spro popping frog (black)

2) Booyah 1/2 ounce willow leave s/bait (golden shiner)

3) Home poured 4 inch stickbait/senko (black with chatreuse flake)

Eeliminator dippied in a little JJ's, finesse jig &baby craw dipped in a little JJ's and last but NOT least the shad.