Only 5 Baits You'd Take To Any Lake 2024

jitterbug127 reply :

Idk if this has been done before or not but. Say you are going to a new lake and know absolutely nothing about it, what would be 5 and only 5 baits you'd take. Must include color in answers.

1 green pumpkin senko

2 white spinner with chartreuse skirt (sk)

3 black spro top water frog

4 bone spook Jr

5 3/8 oz black and blue booyah pig and jig

blckshirt98 reply :

Luckycraft LV 500 - Ghost Bluegill

Yamamoto 3.5" Kut Tail - Watermelon Gold Flake

Strike King KVD 1.5 Squarebill - Natural Shad

D&M Piranha Jig - Sexy Shad

CL8 Bait Mighty Mouse - Brown

MIbassyaker reply :

Green pumpkin stick worm (wacky rigged)

Fluke or other soft jerkbait, GP or white (can double as open water jerkbait or topwater over emergent cover). Dip the tail of either color in chartreuse JJs for visibility in stained water.

Buzzbait, black (not something I would have picked a year ago, but now I don't go anywhere without one)

KVD 1.5 squarebill, bluegill or craw pattern

Ribbontailed worm, texas rigged. Junebug/chartreuse tail

Bluebasser86 reply :

Homemade brush jig, 1/2oz black and blue with a black and blue Rage Craw trailer

5" Black and blue Senko

Homemade bladed jig, 3/8oz green pumpkin with a black blade and green pumpkin Rage Menace trailer

SK 1.5 Green Gizzard shad

War Eagle Finesse spinnerbait 5/16oz Mouse

MasonV reply :

-Zoom Trick Worm in watermelon purple glitter on a 3/16 oz War Eagle Shakey

-V&M 1/2 oz Adrenaline flippin jig in black/blue with a Zoom Super Chunk trailer in flippin blue

Those are the only 2 things that I have tied on no matter what.

Cyacnba reply :

Rage Tail crawfish in watermelon red flake and black blue flake.

Thomas Buoyant spoon in gold color.

Flip&pitch jigs black&blue and PB&J colors.

Livetarget frog in black and yellow.

Strike King spinnerbait bluegill color.

ChrisD46 reply :

On 10/26/2015 at 9:28 AM, jitterbug127 said:

Idk if this has been done before or not but. Say you are going to a new lake and know absolutely nothing about it, what would be 5 and only 5 baits you'd take. Must include color in answers.

1 green pumpkin senko

2 white spinner with chartreuse skirt (sk)

3 black spro top water frog

4 bone spook Jr

5 3/8 oz black and blue booyah pig and jig

^^This^^ ... Now - that's a nice 5 !

Bankbeater reply :

Black 3/8 jig with a Zoom sapphire super chunk trailer

1/4 oz. Mann's 1 minus

White and Chartreuse spinner bait

6" green pumpkin Senko

Zoom super fluke with no weight

smalljaw67 reply :

It really depends on the season but I'll just assume it is post spawn.

1. Spinnerbait - 3/8oz white, since I don't know the lake I'll use the smaller size that will attract more fish but still get big bites.

2. Eakins Style Jig - 5/16oz, again, I don't know the lake or the cover so I'm going to choose a jig that can be fished in any kind of cover from grass to brush and rock.

3. Square Bill Crankbait - This is a bait that can be deadly all season and draws good reaction strikes.

4. Shaky head/4.5" finesse worm - 1/8oz and this is my skunk repellent, if there is fish in the lake I know I can catch one on this.

5. Lipless crankbait - 1/2oz in chrome/black back, this is a search bait that really works in all seasons but can also load the boat when they are chasing baitfish.

clh121787 reply :

1.zoom super fluke Arkansas shad, 2.paradise tackle 1/2 oz flippin jig in green pumkin crawdad. 3. 3/8 ounce terminator spinner bait willow/Colorado blade white chartrues. 4. 3/8 oz strike king red eye shad black back chrome.5. Zoom 6 inch lizard motoroil.

buzzed bait reply :

3/8 PB&J jig

4" senko wacky rig green pumpkin

3/8 spinnerbait white

SK 1.5 olive shad

drop shot roboworm morning dawn

olegs reply :

1.1/2 Jig + Rage Tail Craw/Lobster

2.Jackall worms 4.5"

3.Kut Tail worms GY

4.Senko

5.SK Red Eye Shad

Catt reply :

I carry 5 setups regardless of where I fish!

#1: Texas Rig; maybe weighted or unweighted

#2: Jig-n-Craw; selected to suit cover & conditions

#3: Spinner Bait/Lipless crank

#4: Cranks Baits; shallow/medium/deep

#5: Top Water; selected to suit cover & conditions

Mike L reply :

Yep..

Pretty much it..

Mike

RyanFishing reply :

1. Strike King Dream Shot in Green Pumpkin

2. Strike King 1.5 Squarebill in Tennessee Shad

3. Red Eye Shad Tungsten 2 Tap in Chart Sexy Shad

4. Weightless senko 5" green pumpkin

5. Strike King finesse spinnerbait in sexy shad

Jaw1 reply :

1.#5 shad rap black/silver

2. Shakyhead roboworm margarita mutilator

3. Zoom big critter craw watermelon red

4. White 3/8 buzzbait

5. White 3/8 chatterbait

Derekbass02 reply :

1. BPS Stik-O 5 inch Green pumpkin

2. Rebel Pop-R Baby bass or other similar color

3. Mid sized perch colored jerkbait

4. Brown jig with Paca chunk trailor

5. Bomber Crankbait crawfish color

These 5 should catch bass pretty much anywhere.

stkbassn reply :

Spinnerbait -White/chart

Jig - Black and Blue

Crankbait - firetiger

Wakebait - bass color

Glide Bait - Ayu/Clear

Maxximus Redneckus reply :

Manns purple worm

Rapala j 11 silver and black

Spook redhead white body

2Inch grub white

Mepps #2

garvin reply :

green pumpkin Z-Man ZinkerZ

7" strike king 3x finesse worm in Dirt

Culprit fat max - blue fleck

Z-Man finesse trd in green pumpkin

Squarebill crankbait, 1.5 size, sexy shad

styksnstryngs reply :

1/4 chrome cordell super spot

5" green pumpkin yum dinger

SK riverbug california craw

Squarebill, bluegill

Green pumpkin 1/4oz flip jig

smr_hga reply :

1. Pink & White Bucktail Jig (AKA Ol' Faithful)

2. Purple Senko T- Rigged

3. Bass Colored Crankbait

4. Spinnerbait w/ Orange Jig

5. Orange Rebel Pop-R

BaitMonkey1984 reply :

1. Watermelon Creme 5" GYCB Senko

2. Black and Blue JIG

3. Bluegill Terminator Spinner Bait

4. Black back chartreuse storm arashi square bill crankbait

5. Green Pumpkin powerbait 4" Crazy Chigger Craw

I would feel comfortable taking ONLY #1 or #5 and still catching a mess of fish. Those two straight out catch fish, in all conditions and in all lakes I have encountered here in the NE.

Heron reply :

For Shore fishing...

- Stanley Top Toad

- Swim jig / Keitech Fat

- Super Fluke

- SK Cut R Worm

- 3" Senko

fisherrw reply :

Megabass popmax sexy shad

Strike king 6xd chart sexy

Dropshot jackell crosstail shad

Tube

My head

Senko lover reply :

3/8 oz. green pumpkin/blue flipping jig with a rage chunk.

Zoom trick worms (you can do just about anything with them, shakeyhead, dropshot, wacky, etc.)

Ned Rig

Texas rig: rage craw with a 1/4 oz. weight

3/8 oz. chartreuse/white spinnerbait.

Jar11591 reply :

1. 5" watermelon w/ black flake Yamamoto Senko

2. Green pumpkin Rage Tail Craw T-rigged with a 3/16 oz tungsten bullet

3. 2.5" Storm Rattlin' Chug Bug in "Tennessee Shad"

4. Black Booyah Poppin Pad Crasher

5. Rapala DT6 in "bluegill"

Stingray23 reply :

1. 1/2 oz War Eagle or SK burner double willow spinnerbait in chartruese/white.-1 gold/1 silver blade.

2. SK red eye shad in chrome/blue.

3. Zoom super fluke fished weightless in pearl white.

4. 1/2 jig in blue/blk

5. SK KVD 1.5 in chartruese/blk or an Xcalibur XS4 jerkbait in chrome/ blue

WI_Angler1989 reply :

#1- Cabin Creek Salty Critter Jr, watermelon blue fleck.

#2- Rapala Husky Jerk, 4" perch, silver or gold depending on the conditions.

#3- 1/4 oz Mepps Aglia, brown dressed with a silver blade.

#4- 7" Berkley Power Worm+1/8 oz tungsten worm weight, watermelon red.

#5- War Eagle Mike McClelland Finesse Spinnerbait 3/16, sexy shad.

alzun664 reply :

I'd have to go with baits I have the most confidence in, so from top to bottom my list would be;

2.5" Skitter Pop - Firetiger

Livetarget HBF - Black

3/4oz Rattlin' Rap - Chrome Blue

1/2oz Swim Jig - Bluegill/Green Pumpkin Grub

1/2oz Casting Jig - PBJ/Electric Blue Pit Boss

I'd be fine with this list without the frog, but I'd rather bring it in case there's some really thick cover I can't swim jig my way through. I could replace the casting jig with a texas rig but I have more confidence in jigs.

Hurricane reply :

Senko

Booyah Spinnerbait

Rapala DT6

Black /Blue booyah jig

Whopper plopper (can't wait to try this)

long island basser reply :

3/8 brush jig/tralior- bama craw

5" soft stick bait- watermelon magic

5/16 spinnerbait- shimmer green

hollow body popping frog- leopard

square bill crank- bluegill

scaleface reply :

I would take the 5 I use the most .

1 plastic worm Manns Jelly Worm black grape

2 Long Lip crankbait Norman deep Little N Sunfish

3 short lip crankbait Rogers big Jim bluegill

4 buzzbait Lunker lure black

5 spinnerbait single willowleaf baitfish color ..Most any brand will do .

MIbassangler30 reply :

1) 3/8 oz jig in green pumpkin with a Rage Craw trailer

2) Spro or Snagproof popping frog (black)

3) Texas rig - Zoom brush hog or GYCB senko

4) 1/2 oz War Eagle or Nichols spinnerbait; white and chartreuse, double willow

5) Swimbait; either a LFT Magic Shad boot tail (perch) or Keitech Swing Impact fat 4.8 (bluegill flash)

tander reply :

1. 3/8 oz spinnerbait chart/white with copper single blade

2. 200 series Bandit crankbait Tenn shad

3. 5' Yum Dinger in Junebug

4. Zoom Super Fluke

5. Z Man TRD with 1/10 oz head in Junebug

MIbassyaker reply :

I think i've posted an answer to some version of this question about 4-5 times since last summer, and it might have been different each time!

Current answer:

1. 3/8oz cavitron buzzbait, black blade, black skirt

2. KVD 1.5 squarebill, bluegill color

3. 5" green pumpkin GYCB Senko, for wacky and weightless t-rigs

4. 7" Black Berkley Power Worm, bullet weight and hooks for t-rigs

5. 6.5" Zoom trick worm, green pumpkin, for shakyhead, and mojo rigs.

Just missing the cut this time: Ned rig, Pop-R, Rapala original floating minnow, flipping jig with rage craw trailer.

Fishing Rhino reply :

In no particular order.

1. 4 inch Senko, watermelon w/blk and red flakes, wacky rigged on a Gamakatsu wacky jig head.

2. 4 inch SK or Zman elaztech finesse worm pb&j shaky head rig on a 3/16th ounce Spot Remover or Vike jig head.

3. Rage Tail Menace, green pumpkin w/gold and purple flakes on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round tungsten jig head.

4. Rage Tail craw green pumpkin w/gold and purple flakes fished on an Owner keel weighted hook or weightless for top water, rigged weedless both ways.

5. Lunker City 2 3/4" Grubster Clearwater color, on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round tungsten jig head.

drew4779 reply :

4" Senko

Tube - venom roadkill

DT-6

Crazy Leg Chigger Craw - bream

Spinner - venom hidden head

Honorable mention: koppers hollow body frog, jig, magic swimmer, husky jerk, x-cal silent crank, and ribbon tail plastic worm.

Quite honestly, these are what I'm using 95% of the time.

bigbassin' reply :

Zoom U-vibe speed worm in Junebug Red

Zoom Super Fluke in Watermelon Red

KVD 1.5 in Tennessee Shad

1/2 Green Pumpkin Jig with Zoom U-vibe Speed Craw Trailer

Booyah Pooppin' Pad Crasher in Leopard

Jigfishn10 reply :

Grass Jig with either a grub or Rage Craw

Skitter Walk or Spit'n Image

Slug-go - I know, going retro

Lipless Crank - Cold Chrome Rippin Rap

Spoon - my build or a Lil Cleo

ww2farmer reply :

Booyah Pad Crasher in Bullfrog

My homemade 1/2 oz flip/swim jig with a green pumpkin skirt with a few strands of orange and chart.

5" Green Pumpkin Yum Dinger

4" Green Pumpkin Havoc Pit Poss, I can flip it by itself, or use it as a jig trailer

SK KVD 1.5 Square Bill in Chart. Sexy Shad

Big C reply :

1.R2S Spittin' Wa Poison

2.PB&J casting jig

3.Peanutbutter Lunker City Spanky

4.Hudd 68 (Just in case that "Any Lake" is the Delta)

5.Gambler Cane Toad in Pepper Grass

kickerfish1 reply :

1. Weightless fluke

2. Spro frog

3. Chatterbait

4. Swimjig with a paddletail

5. Drop shot

Honorable mention for the next 5: lipless bait, jerkbait, Texas rig, rage rigged Keitech swimbait, and a shakeyhead.

N Florida Mike reply :

1.Watermelon seed Zoom super fluke. 2. 4 inch yamasenkos watermelon red/ with black. 3.Red shad Culprit worm . 4.Zoom z- hog Watermelon red. 5.Producto tournament worm. Black grape or black.

fullcoupe reply :

1 - Red bug Zoom 6" trick worm (T-rig or D/S)

2 - Dirty plum 5" Senko (weightless or wacky)

3 - Storm arashi squarebill in black/char (size 5)

4 - Lucky craft LV500 in American shad

5 - River2Sea spittin' wa frog in dirty white (size 70)

5fishlimit reply :

1) Zoom finesse worm. Black, and junebug color.

2) Rage Tail craw. Falcon Lake craw color.

3) Keitech 5" EZ Shiner. Sight flash color.

4) 3/8 oz jig in black, and pb&j

5) Zoom toad. Black color.

I feel very comfortable in feeling like these would produce on any lakes I may fish.

Master Bait'r reply :

T-rigged worm, minnow craw or jerk (depending on conditions)

Slide swimmer or other glide bait

110 suspending jerkbait

Hollow frog

Arky or brush jig

cgolf reply :

Bandit 100 fire tiger

Norman Deep little N Chartreuse sexy Shad

Sun Perch 5/16 oz Santone swim jig with a kalins 5" Rons Craw grub

Water Red tube on a slider spider head, most likely 1/4 ounce

Strike King white 3/16 ounce bleeding bait spinner

All of the above colors will work in gin clear or stained water, the only questionable one is the spinnerbait in stained water

Ads7633 reply :

1.) Weightless Super Fluke, Watermelon w/ Red Flake

2.) Wacky Rigged 5" Senko, Watermelon w/ Green Pumpkin Laminate

3.) Strike King Red Eye Shad 3/8, Chrome w/ Blue back (Tie with Original Rattle-Trap)

4.) KVD 3/8 Spinnerbait Willow/Colorado blades, Sexy Shad

5.)Zman TRD on 1/15 Shroom Head, Green Pumpkin

(FYI, #6 would be a 3/8 Black Cavitron Buzzbait. I only leave it out because while topwater is my favorite, when pushed to choose what I absolutely need to make sure I cover my bases and catch fish... I suppose I don't need any topwater baits.)

gobig reply :

Time of year and type of lake would have a lot of impact on my selection.

S. Sass reply :

Hula StickZ in Green Pumpkin on a Arkie 3/0 or 4/0 Weedless Stand Up Head
Manns Jelly Worm 6″ or 8" in Grape or Black Grape Texas Rigged on a Offset Shank 3/0 or 4/0 worm hook
3/8 oz Spinnerbait in White or White and Chartreuse with chrome or nickle blade preferably a single Colorado
1/2 oz Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap in Chrome Black
Strike King Rage Tail Craw Black with Blue flake Texas Rigged on a Offset Shank 3/0 or 4/0 worm hook

FSUFish reply :

1. Heddon Super Spook Jr. - Bone

2. Jackall Squad Minnow 95SP- Pearl Ayu

3. GYCB Senko 5" - Watermelon/Black Flake

4. 7' PowerWorm - Tequila Sunrise

5. Zoom Super Fluke - Pearl White

Basspro3106 reply :

1: 4inch blk senko

2: pumpkin senko

3: strike king white spinnerbait

4: rapala dt 10 in any color

5: zoom lizards 6inch blk

Fishinthefish reply :

White chatter bait, white spinnerbait, white biospawn craw, white biospawn prostix, white soft body swim bait, and tons and tons of bottles of jjs magic

rowyourboat reply :

1. Watermelon w/ Black Flake 5" Senko

2. 1/2 oz. Ware Eagle Spinnerbait. Silver Colorado and Gold Willow tandem

3. green pumpkin tube. t-rig with 3/16 oz weight

4. 7/16 finesse jig with craw trailer. greep pumpkin

5. Carolina rig watermelon lizard

bkohlman reply :

1. 3/8 oz Strike King Red Eye Spinner Bait - White

2. 4" Chigger Craw - Green Pumpkin

3. 1/2 oz Rat-L-Trap - Chrome Shad

4. Zoom Finesse Worm - Watermelon Magic

5. Zoom Fat Albert - Salt and Pepper

jjconnaire reply :

For me it would be:

Keitech 3.8" swing impact fat (smallmouth magic color) on a owner 3/0 swim bait hook

LC 1.5 in TO Gill

zoom 4" lizard

PopR

spinner bait

FrogFreak reply :

1/2 oz. homemade flipping jig w/ craw trailer,(vile craw or rage craw) GP color for both.
Bone or white walking bait, prefer homemade or sexy dawg
3/8 oz. homemade white swim jig w/ white paddle tail plastic, prefer SK caffeine shad
Homemade squarebill in sexy shad color pattern
Senko style worm GP color (wacky or t-rigged)

I spend the whole cold ass winter making lures so I tend to throw my own. Next winter I plan to try pouring plastics.

Brocephus Fishing reply :

1. Bladed Jig

2. Brush Jig

3. Finesse Jig

4. Football Jig

5. Arky Jig

Seems to be a common theme here for me ...

Kuenro02 reply :

1. Green pumpkin senko

2. Brush Jig. Can flip it or swim it. Trailer is secret.

3. Frog. SPRO or bps Kermy

4. KVD squarebill 1.5

5. White terminator spinnerbait

close to making the list include chatterbait, pop-r, Texas rigged ribbon tail worm, jerkbait if it's spring

TrippyJai reply :

1) Squarebill - great for shallow cranking rocks to stumps.

2) Lipless - fish it from shallow to deep ripping out of grass to bouncing off rocks.

3) Senko - who doesn't catch fish on a wacky or weightless senko!?

4) Spro Frog - open water to grass mats.

5) Rage Craw - 1/4oz pitching to punching by just changing the bullet weight.

Scarborough817 reply :

white buzzbait

bluegill chatterbait

black and blue jig

medium diving crank

frog

primetime reply :

Jigs....Bladed jigs.....Swim Senko. GYB 5" Single tail grub, Power Worm ribbons and I would cheat and sneak in a Larew floating Toad for topwater or flipping.

ethan-333 reply :

green pumpkin senko

black and blue jig

spro frog

2.5 crank bait

watermelon red trick worm

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