Favorite Lures Of 2011 2024
PondBassin reply :
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
Goose52 reply :
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.
RyneB reply :
Rage Craw
3/8 oz black blue jig with rage craw trailer
baby rage craw
shadalicious swimbait
Fat-G reply :
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...
B@ssCrzy reply :
Stanley Ribbit
Berkley Ribbon Tale 4" (as dropshot bait)
Original Floating Rapala
jeremyt reply :
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.
BasskingKeith reply :
1. Zoom Super Fluke jr.
2. Yum Dinger
3. Zara spook
YoungProdigy19 reply :
Berserk Baits Slop Jig
Zipper Worm Jr.
KVD 1.5 Gizzard Shad Crankbait
Hooligan reply :
Little John DD
Northstar 3/4 Ounce Spinnerbait- Unnamed color
Northstar 1/2 ounce Premier Jig- GP Candy Rage Lobster Trailer.
Packard reply :
Best Producers:
Yamamoto Senko 5"
BPS X2 Shimmy Worm
Berkley Power Worm 7"
Favorite:
KVD 1.5
Vision 110
Rage Craw
CRANKSTER reply :
Spinnerbait
H2O Squarebill
Senko
McAlpine reply :
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.
Reel_Kaotic reply :
SK Redeye Shad
Rage Craws
Swim/Football Jigs
Senkos
StinkyBass reply :
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)
QUAKEnSHAKE reply :
Senko Bama Bug
Woody's blk/bl jig w/RT baby craw okeechobee
SK Bitsy Minnow blk/blk chartruese
Crankenstein Crony reply :
1. KVD 1.5
2. 6xd & 5xd
3A. Reaction Innovation Sweet Beaver
3B. Strike King Rodent
ww2farmer reply :
Same lures as 2010, and 2009, and well....as long as I can remember.
Bassn Blvd reply :
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.
tnbassfisher reply :
1. 7" Powerworm
2. Strike King Rodent
3. Rage Tail Space Monkey
slonezp reply :
Jigs
Buckeye Mop jigs in PB&J and Northstar swim jigs in blue and black, and bluegill with Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer.
tstone reply :
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
bassin is addicting reply :
Lake Fork live magic shad on a scrounger head
Bandit 100 various colors
Senko 5" pumpkin w/black a green flake
TourPT reply :
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.
loodkop reply :
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)
Mrs. Matstone reply :
Eeliminator dippied in a little JJ's, finesse jig &baby craw dipped in a little JJ's and last but NOT least the shad. 
Primus reply :
I spent a lot of time with swimbaits, these are a few baits that Ihad fun with....
3:16 Wake Jr.
Matt Lures Hard Bluegill
8" R.O.F. 12 Huddleston
fxdwgkd reply :
White spinner with colorado and willow blade
heddon spook, black and silver
strike king #5 in sexy shad
backwater4 reply :
Swim jig
Hand poured frog
4" Berkley finesse worms
deaknh03 reply :
Fat ika smeared with Megastrike
baby brush hog
white colorado blade spinner
This coming season I have my Roboworms GoneFishin hooked me up with and a bunch of Ragetails. I'm gonna fish those 2 for a good part of the early year.
JIGFISHERMAN. reply :
Virtually all of my fishing was in the creek in the back yard, that empties into the lake. My boat was a project that lasted all year.
So, everything I used was as natural and/or subtle as I had. Some 3-1/2" Stickbaits, rigged wacky, with no weight, pumpkin jig/chunk combo's, that was the bulk of my lures used.
Just heavy enough to carry down stream. Not sure what it's called, but the same way I've always fished for salmon in the Pierre Marquete. Cast up stream, current carries down stream. No contact repeat.
Of course there are targets through out, but you just have to cast up stream so the current carries into the target.
drop-shot fool reply :
Homemade Mop Jig
Homemade football jig
KVD 1.5
CP series 1
NCLifetimer reply :
Shallow crank bait(rapala 3/8oz black and white).
Blue culprit 7.5 inch worm.
3/8 oz brown/green jig.
Senkoman12 reply :
1. senkos(i tried to stray away from them this year but in tournaments i kept using them just to put fish in the boat)
2. 1/4oz grassmaster jig/1/4oz bps enticer brush jig
3.shakeyhead
MuffinMan reply :
1. Zoom Super fluke Houdini shad
2. Culprit Ribbon-tail Red Shad
3.Brown and green SK bits bug jig 1/4 ounce with a Zoom baby brush hog trailer
SausageFingers reply :
My top three producers were:
1. Blade Runner blue gill swim jig with a lime-purple passion pit boss
2. XCalibur XCS 200 in Oxbow
3. Manns Waker Elite in Matte Tiger
Vinny Chase reply :
NorthStar Swim Jig
RI Skinny Dipper
Netbait Paca Craw
Skeet22 reply :
Lunker Lure Buzz Bait
RI Skinny Dipper
H2O squarebill and wake bait
Spro Frog
Baby brush hogs and speed craws
Gained confidence in swim jigs and drop shotting. Still have yet to catch a fish on a shaky head..
Vinny Chase reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 12:33 AM, Skeet22 said:Gained confidence in swim jigs and drop shotting. Still have yet to catch a fish on a shaky head..
Skeet22,
I started really getting into shaky head fishing last year, and to be honest I really haven't caught much on it to speak of.
Like you said in another post, it is all about confidence and going into this year, I have the least confidence in fishing a worm on a shakey head.
Skeet22 reply :
yeah I try to gain confidence in new stuff while practicing or fun fishing and the shaky head has not been to kind. I gained a ton of confidence on a swim jig this year which is a nice change up from a spinnerbait when fishing clean water. The North Star swim jigs are killer with a zoom fat albert trailer..
Vinny Chase reply :
I would agree that it doesn't get much better than a NorthStar swim jig. I have tried a grub trailer, but keep going back to a paca craw.
SmokeRise1 reply :
1. Rico popper (any color)
2. Rage Toad (pumpkin)
3. Rage Shad (white and sometime with the tail dipped in JJs Methyate)
baluga reply :
1. Sammy 100
2. Lucky Craft FM 110 SP
3. 3" Big Hammer swimbait
River Rat316 reply :
Swim jig
flippin jig
and a hand injected beaver style bait
Those three accounted for over 80% of my fish. I didn't get a chance to fish much last year but this year I am teaching Vinny how to tie so he can sit in the shop and I can fish every day....lol
flipin4bass reply :
Top Water
Frogs (Various makes)
LC Gunfish & Sammy
LC RC 3.5 Wake Bait (This was a killer!)
Cranks
LC BDS 2 thru 4
Risto Raps 7, 8, & 9
Excalibur Shad-R
A couple of old Heddon lures from the 50s
Jigs
Homemade
Soft Plastics
Manns Jelly Worm 9" & 12" (Landed my PB with this worm, 13.4 lbs)
Rage Tail Anaconda
Gene Larew Hoodaddy and Lizard
Red reply :
In order of quantity of bass caught.
1. Bandit 200 Pearl/Chart back
2. Rage Rigged Rage Craw, various colors
3. Jig and Rage Craw, various colors
In order of quality bass caught
1. Buzzbait- biggest of the year, possible PB
2. Rage Rigged Rage Craw, green pumpkin
3. Jig and Rage Craw, PB&J or some sort of greenish color.
Over all the Bandit ruled this past year!!
Cliff
slonezp reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 3:27 AM, Vinny Chase said:I would agree that it doesn't get much better than a NorthStar swim jig. I have tried a grub trailer, but keep going back to a paca craw.
@Vinny Chase, I've been using Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer with great success on NS swimjigs. Only problem is they don't last long. Picked up some Keitech Swing Impact to try this year.
flippin and pitchin reply :
Spinnerbait
Normans Deep Little N
Yamamoto Hula Grub
Sweet Beaver get an honorable mention
bwell reply :
Northstar jigs brought in most of my fish this year.
Vinny Chase reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 6:44 AM, River Rat316 said:Swim jig
flippin jig
and a hand injected beaver style bait
Those three accounted for over 80% of my fish. I didn't get a chance to fish much last year but this year I am teaching Vinny how to tie so he can sit in the shop and I can fish every day....lol
Isn't that why you had kids? 
Vinny Chase reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 2:01 PM, slonezp said:@Vinny Chase, I've been using Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer with great success on NS swimjigs. Only problem is they don't last long. Picked up some Keitech Swing Impact to try this year.
If I am fishing the flip and swim jig deep I like to put on a swimbait trailer, but I can't get myself to spend $8 for 5 swimbaits....I think I am also going to give in and just use them on tourny day.
Vinny Chase reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 3:16 PM, flippin and pitchin said:Spinnerbait
Normans Deep Little N
Yamamoto Hula Grub
Sweet Beaver get an honorable mention
Probably the one bait that I EXPECT to catch a 5 lbr evreytime. Love the deep little N
Big-O reply :
Siebert Outdoors Big O Brush Jig and Football jig with the Heavy Owner Hooks and 5/32" brush guard are SWEEEEET! Mike has a couple of real winner on his hands...
www.ragetail.com
flippin and pitchin reply :
On 1/6/2012 at 9:49 PM, Vinny Chase said:Probably the one bait that I EXPECT to catch a 5 lbr evreytime. Love the deep little N
So do I. The DLN has been very good to me for smallmouth and largmouth. Normans discontinued a color pattern that has been my go to so I bought everyone I could find. Then another guy I fish with showed me his talent as a lure painter and matched it 100%. I'm set for life. He painted a Luhr Jensen Speed Trap for me in that same color scheme. SMOKIN !!!
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