Hey i wanna know what is your top 3 largemouth baits in your opinions the ones you have the most confidence in to catch largemouth also i would like to see where you use these baits and around what types of structure do you fish them all response i would like to see in list form like this here is my top 3
JerkBait (Rapala Original Floater) - Used near docks and weed beds
Zoom Curly Tail worm - Used near docks rocks and sometimes deep structure fishing
Willow/Colorado blade spinnerbait about 1/2 oz - Used around docks and retrieved fast near points drop offs weed beds and rocky structure also near sunken trees usually instantly i catch a fish on these
It's hard to narrow it down to three baits, because I have confidence in many different baits. My absolute favorite technique is deep cranking, but it's not always effective, so I can't say that I have the most confidence in deep crankbaits. Looking at your question as if I had to pick only three baits to use with no knowledge of the body of water, I would pick:
1. Texas Rigged Gene Larew Salt Craw
2. Strike King Red Eye Shad
3. 1/8 oz Shaky Head with a Zoom Finesse Worm
I feel like I can catch fish on one of those three baits, under a variety of conditions, on just about any given day.
1.Strike Kink Ocho Blue Craw
2.Spro Aruku Shad
3.Strike King KVD Perfect Plastics Finesse Worms or Trick worm in green pumpkin
4.Recently till I lost it on my first day of use is the Northstar Double Willow Hidden Weight SpinnerBait **Bull Gill
pop-r...almost anywhere that weeds don't come to surface
buzzbait...over the flats and in alleys through reeds, etc
flipping a producto worm...in reeds and slop
1. T-rigged power worm
2. Fat ika
3. Outcast rt jig w/ chigger craw
Terminator Green & White Spinnerbait
Lucky Craft RC1.5 Blue back over chartreuse
Zoom Trickworm Junebug, Green Pumpkin, or Bananaseed.
Zoom 5" fluke anywhere shallow and or grassy
1/2 oz spinnerbait with generic worm tail trailer.
Dark colored rattle trap.
Bandit 200 Pearl with Chartruse back
Texas rigged Rage Craw, green pumpkin
Jewel Eakins Jig, Rage Trailer.
All of them work great when fished in timber. The crank is also effective around chunk rock.
Zoom Super Fluke (Baby Bass, Watermelon)
Zoom Trick Worm (White, Junebug, Redbug)
Rage Craw or Baby Rage Craw (Okee Craw, Bama Craw)
ALWAYS catch fish with those baits.
1. Zoom Trick Worm (red shad)
2. Senko or yum dinger (black/purple fleck/junebug)
3. Roostertail or Mepps ( perfect to use on my high pressured ponds/lakes)
Structure and vegetation
1. Brovarney baits swim jig in crappie color with a single tail grub salty fat albert pearl trailor
2. Weightless Rage Tail Eeliminator worked on top (3 of my 5 biggest bass came on this)
3. T rigged rage tail smokin rooster.
Open water
1. Northstar bluegill double willow spinnerbait
2. series 5 Strike King chart. sexy shad crankbait
3. Weightless Rage Tail Eeliminator. This bait is just awesome, very very versatile.
Football jig / Rage Tail trailer
DD22
Senko (hard to admit that but it is what it is)
1. manns jelly worm - size
2.zoom super fluke-numbers
3.grub - versitility
1) Zoom trick worm
2) Single colorado spinnerbait
3) Frog
Zoom super Fluke- anywhere really they seem to be bass magnets in my hands lol
White scum frogs- grass matts and lilly pads
Swim jigs with a fat albert trailer- anywhere them first 2 didn't work and some of the same spots
fluke
jig
buzz toad
All time? Just LMB?
1. Jig
2. 10" Ribbon tail Worm
3. 7" Ribbon tail worm
This year and last?
1. Jig
2. Rage craw
3. Something 4" long, plastic, Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
1. Brush Hog
2. Jig
3. Cranks
More of favorite techniques than baits.
Wacky Rigged Senkos or Zoom finesse and trick worms.
Shaky Head with ***, Roboworms, Swamp Crawlers and trick worms.
Crankbaits including Strike King KVD's square bills and Bandit 100s.
Topwaters such as Cavitrons and RICOs.
There are places and times to throw different baits but the above is a start.
#1 Texas Rig: 7 1/2" Salty Ringworm in Cinnamon Pepper Neon/June Bug Laminated (Camouflage).
#2 Oldham Lures, Inc: Eye-Max Jigs in Black-n-Blue or Coon Tail
Trailers: Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craws: 6” Black Blue Flake/Blue Claw or Rage Tail Lobster: Falcon Lake Craw
#3 Spinner Bait: Stanley Jigs Vibra-Wedge 1/2 oz DBL Willow Gold/Silver White Skirt
So far this season:
Swim jig (different makes) in bluegill color
Baby Rage craw (multiple colors)
XCalibur XCS 200 (multiple colors)
On 6/2/2011 at 10:31 PM, eyedabassman said:Any Northstar jig
Paca or Baby Paca craw on a t-rig or weighted hook
Ribbon tail worm t-rig
Jig
Tube
Shaky head 5.5" worm
1. Azuma crankbaits.
2. Azuma lipless crankbaits.
3. RI worms. Eapecially the Bloody Mary, Flirt.
1. frogs (ish phat frog or stanley ribbit)
2. Senko (Yamamoto 5")
3. Rattle Trap (blue back/chrome/orange belly)
for this year and right now,
Bomber square bill in sexy shad
bama bug SK Game Hawg
spinnerbait with a paddletail or 4" grub instead of a skirt.
ask me again in November and it'll be 3 completely different things
so far..
7" power worm in Camo
Bomber fat free shad Jr 1/2oz in Crawfish
Zoom ultra vibe speed craw rigged on a keel weighted hook in Green pumpkin magic
This season:
Bandit 100 series crankbait in Tennessee Shad
7" ribbontail worm in Tequila sunrise, junebug or red shad
1/2 oz. football jig; green pumpkin or blue/black with some sort or craw-looking trailer.
I expect that, as the weather warms up, I'll switch to deeper cranks.
Tom
1.jig (just cause I fish it most of the time)
2.Ikas
3.Senkos
so far this season
1. LC Fat CB mini
2. Chug Bug
3. T-Rigged Rage Craw
1. Rage toad-------while I do use them in the pads my favorite is to cast them up into the grass or cattails and let it gently fall into the water, I feel like I don't spook fish by launching it right on their heads and I don't have to get the boat as close trying to get a soft landing.
2. white spinner bait------every where, if it is really deep I will put a bullet weight on the line I will fish them up to 20' deep but usually 1-10 feet the most.
3. senko-----------too easy I know but I am not going for style points
1) Fat IKA <--- #1 by far for quality
2) 5" Senko
3) Jig and Craw
Buzzbait
Spinnerbait
Berkely 4" Power Worm
A shiner, a night crawler, and a live bluegill.
I may or may not be ruffling feathers. You didn't say lures.
Frog - green pumpkin BPS / black Ribbit
Spinnerbait - wht & chart
Rebel Craw Crankbait - w/ KVD hooks
3/8 spinnerbait
3/8 jig
5" senko
1. Jig
2. Blade
3. Texas rigged plastic
Jointed Rapala- Anywhere near stumps or weeds. Any colors will work, I have done best with the black and gold ones and perch patterned.
Jitterbug- Stumps and weeds. Black has been my best color. Best nighttime lure.
Spoons- Deeper weedbeds. Five of Diamonds and Red/White Daredevils(same ones people recommend for pike).
1. 5" Senko or Yum Dinger in pumpkin, watermelon or black
2. Rage Tail Space Monkey (I've been killing the bass with these all year)
3. Rapala Skitterpop
Before I discovered the Space Monkey this season I'd probably put a traditional, floating Rapala in gold or silver 3 1/2 inches in the top 3.
So far:
Swim jigs with Rage Craws trailers
Jigs with Rage Craws
Rage Craws
1. weightless senko/fluke (depending)
2. baby brush hog
3. pop-r or similar
I'll fish anything and everything but I gurantee I will have these three tied on all times of the year.
So far this season (as it's sure to change):
1) Baby Brush Hog
2) Super Fluke
3) Spinnerbait (1/2oz White with white skirt that has a little pumpkin and gold mixed in. Coupled with willow and Colorado blades.)
1/8 oz Bitsy Bug (blue/black) with a Chigger Craw (black/blue flake)
5" Senco (black/blue flake) weightless
3/8 oz chartreuse and white Spinnerbait w/ bleeding bait trailer hook
1/8 oz Bitsy Bug (blue/black) with a Chigger Craw (black/blue flake)
5" Senco (black/blue flake) weightless
3/8 oz chartreuse and white Spinnerbait w/ bleeding bait trailer hook
I am prejudiced!!!
Jig n Rage Lobster for flipping and Football jig n Lobster for casting
Anaconda T rigged for deep or Rage Rig (weighted hook) over the noses and edges of deep grass beds
Eeliminator C rigged for dragging wherever there are fish
Big O
www.ragetail.com
The responses to this post look like a lure catalog
My favorite lures are in constant rotation, but currently go something like this:
> Berkley 10" Power Worm
> Spro Aruku Shad (lipless crank)
> Strike King Rage Lobster
"Jig" wasn't mentioned, but both soft plastics above are rigged on unskirted jigs
Roger
1. Zoom Baby Brush hogs (saved me from being skunked many times)
2. Berkley Chigger Craw
3. Spinnerbait/lipless crankbait (tie)
yum dinger purple, jitterbug, rattle trap (aruku shad or xcalibur)
1. Senko/ Dinger (yamamoto, yum)
2. Crazy legs chigger craw (Berkley)
3. Red eye shad (strikeking)
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4. Spinnerbait (strikeking)
5. Fluke (zoom, Strike King)
A white spinnerbait, Zoom super fluke, and an 1/8 ounce jig.
3/8 or 1/2 oz football head jig with rage craw
white or white/char spinnerbait
weightless or wacky rigged senko
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lucky craft pointer
big 10'' worm t-rigged
1. Senko
2. Senko
3. Senko
If there was no other lure on the planet, I'd be set.
5" Senko watermelon/red flake rigged on 3/0 Red Gammy EWG
Jig w/craw trailer
Super Pop-R
Jig, swimjig, Houdinishad