Ya'lls go to baits? 2024

HillBilly Willie reply :

Which lure do you use most during each season of the year?

Big-O reply :

Usually I'll fish a jig'n craw or a big worm in the Spring, then go to a jig'n craw or a big worm in the Summer, followed by a jig'n craw or a big worm in the Fall, and finally I'll use a jig'n craw or a big worm in the Winter. I know that's alot of information to process but after 50 years of bass fishing, I can't find anything that constantly produces big fish any better than these. Or maybe at my age I just can't remember any others. Good fishin!

flippincrazy reply :

spinner bait, rattle trap= reaction strike

Irrelevant reply :

Good old spinnerbait.

Bass n Bows reply :

Hula grub on a stand up jig head has been a very versatile combination for me.

Ky_Lake_Dude reply :

Spring- Spinnerbait

Summer- Shaky Head/crankbait

Fall- Deer Rifle

Winter-Deer Rifle too

iceintheveins reply :

Senko, but MAYBE a super fluke. Tough choice, could flip a coin and go with either one. Only thing is both suck in heavily stained or murky water, but most of my lakes are clear.

arthurspooner13 reply :

Spinnerbait

carySE406 reply :

Fluke or jig in the spring, t-rig or senko/ika in the summer, spinnerbait or crankbait in the fall.

Vyron reply :

spinnerbait

Fish Chris reply :

An 8" Hud, #12 ROF, in holdover trout color.

A 9" MSslammer (looking like a chunk of broomstick with hooks on it) actually produces big fish as well. Great topwater bait. Just something about that loud, obnoxious action.

I will use other stuff for Spring sightfishing.... like a Basstrix Bluegill, or a Huddlebug, rigged on a custom 3/0 1/4 oz jig.

Peace,

Fish

smallieking reply :

x-rap or tube works pretty good for me nearly all season long a jig is up there too

BassinBoy reply :

In the spring a tube. Summer a senko, ribbontail worm, and a frog. I fall any thing.

Junebug reply :

I usually have four rods rigged at all times:

1. T-Rigged worm or brush hog

2. Rapala X-rap

3. Spinner Bait

4. everything else

I feel most confident with the T-rig worm, so I guess that's my go-to bait.

dman reply :

Spinnerbait, Wacky Rigged Senko, Tube

GitRDoneIke23 reply :

I LOVE my Zoom Baby Brush Hog T rigged. (White, RedShad, Pumkinseed) Also Rat L Traps (anything with chrome, 1/4 oz. - 1/2 oz.)

In the summer I like Yum and Zoom Frogs. (Chart., White.)

Rapla Skiter Walks and Heddon Super Spook and Super Spook Jr. work good for me too. (Bone, Clown, and Chart./Black.)

8-)

Brush Hog20 reply :

Brush Hog of course.... ;D I have never used the baby brush hog. I have used the tiny brush hog as a trailer. I fish a lot of off color and stained water. I like the the extra action and vibration of the Papa Brush Hog.

Avalonjohn44 reply :

Green/White Spinnerbait, Chartreuse/shad Bandit 100, or a Trickworm (whatever color...).

Catt reply :

#1 Texas Rigged Gene Larew 7 ½ Salty Ring Worm Cinnamon Pepper Neon/June Bug Laminated (Camouflage).

fishinfiend reply :

I almost always catch fish on watermelon chart lizards c-rig or junebug caterpillars

jrhennecke reply :

4" Yum Dinger

Rat L Trap

White Spinnerbait

.dsaavedra. reply :

anything with the name "RAPALA" on it

also, a 4 or 5 inch soft stick bait (ususally YUM dingers, but this year im gonna test out my new order of ***).

ba7ss3in reply :

T-Rig Red Shad Worm or Green Pumpkin Trick worm

Yakfish reply :

Jig w/ Flappin Hog trailer. Used to be a senko but last year I made the jig mine.

Popeye reply :

VibraBat!! Ahgagagaga!! Just kidding. I've developed a real liking and confidence in Senkos and jigs with 4" tubes as of late and am trying to prove RW correct about Fat Ikas (haven't had any success with them YET:o)

Olebiker reply :

I have more confidence in a Senko than anything else, but it isn't my favorite bait to fish.

If I have my druthers, and the bass are cooperating, I'll throw a white spinnerbait or a lipless crankbait like a RatLTrap.

I almost always have a rod rigged with a Texas rigged Gitem Big Flapper worm.

slider head reply :

early spring spinnerbait

late spring Mr. Lizard!

JigNBig reply :

Fat Ika/Senko

Football Jig

Shakey Head

Spook Jr.

D.Cox reply :

When it's tough- a Jig or a finess worm!

Joel W reply :

Go to baits:

Spring it's a Jerkbait

Spawn it's a 4 or 5 inch stickbait

Summer it's a wt'd plastic or jig

Fall it's a jig

late winter it's a jig or spoon

Madhouse27 reply :

Case Plastics Jack's Worm, Zoom Fat Albert Grub

Rob.Atl reply :

Probly a rat l trap in chrome or texas rigged black trick worm in some of my secret sent

Tpayneful reply :

I used to have a go to lure years ago and have been thinking about this all Winter. I have learned so many techiques and have confidence in so many things I have gotten away from go to baits. Over the last 15 years I have gone through these go to baits. Here is the evolution:

Rapala Crippled Minnow (fished as a jerkbait)

4" black power worm

1/2oz tandem spinnerbait

Senko

Baby Brush Hog

Jig

Horny Toad / Ribbit

Super Fluke

Bandit Footloose

So far this year the Mattlures Baby Bass and *** *** have caught fish for me.

I only have 6 baitcasting combos and 3 spinning combos so I only have a few options to tie up for each trip ;D

This spring I will probably have 5 rods rigged up with the following:

Hard Jerkbait

***

Jig

Bandit Footloose

Swimbait

One other thing that I will mention is.......switch to whatever your partner is using to catch all of the fish!

MALTESE FALCON reply :

It used to always be a crankbait, but like Tpayneful, I've become confident with so many different baits there really isn't just one.

Falcon

Bassn Blvd reply :

I use which ever one works the best during that time.

treble_hook_smile reply :

I try to stick to what the conditions are calling for. But these baits will most likely be at the end of my lines:

Spring - prespawn-lipless crankbait, jig, and crawfish pattern shallow

crank, basstrix

- spawn - tube, stick worm, shallow bluegill crank

- post spawn - lipless crank, senko, jig

Summer - Big worm, Jig, Spoon, frog, deep crank

Fall - cranks of all kinds

Go to, or confidence baits, are 10" worms and cranks.

CWB reply :

1.Brush Hog, Wolly Hawgtail, Hoo Daddy

2.Tiki Stick

3.Tube

4.Frog,Buzzbait (Warmer weather)

5.Red Eye Shad.

bronzeback01 reply :

pearch colored suspending rapala.

mibassman reply :

5" Yamamato Double Tail Hula Grubs in either blue pearl/silver flake or blue pearl/black flake usually work for me up in michigan, also tubes or 4" gulp minnow grubs fluorescent orange or green pumpkin on a jig head

Daiwa reply :

chatterbait!!!!!

TruflShufl reply :

spinnerbait or senko

but there's nothing I love more than fishing a topwater popper if the conditions permit it 8-)

Castamasta reply :

my go to used to be a spinnerbait, but my friends and i have all of the sudden been catchin some hawgs on jigs so now im gonna have to say a black and blue football head jig with black and blue berkley craw trailer

TrickyVT1887 reply :

The one that catches the most fish ;D

BirdNestBen reply :

Helicopter Luer

No way.... Texas rig-Powerworm #1

and Watermelon Senko's bout all I fish... and zoom fluke....

guest reply :

Topwater; Jitterbug 5/8 oz. Black

Minnow Lures: Original Floating or Jointed #11 in Silver

Cranks; Rapala Dt's or Storm Big Bass: Darker Crawfish colors or Blue gill

Plastics: 5inch ***: Dark Greens T Rigged

4 inch: Wacky Rigged

7.5 inch *** Ribbon Tail worms, t rigged

Jigs; A couple of various heads with either a *** Brush Bug or Beaver Craw

Tokyo Tony reply :

Jigs, jerkbaits (hard and soft), weightless plastic (senko or kreature), and walk-the-dog topwaters (zaras and sammy's). For nightifishing, it's all about the black/blue chatterbait.

I want to do a lot more rattle trapping and shakey heading this year, hopefully those two baits will be on my list by next spring, but I just don't use them enough to have confidence in them right now.

Nicky Greece reply :

Shad-Rap DT-10, all the time...

Zel... reply :

I use a variety of lures with confidence. When I think of a goto bait, it's the one I throw when fishing is tough, and most other lures won't work. Mine is a Berkley 4" Power Finesse Worm Hand Pour (Watermelon Magic Red Glitter), usually on a 1/8 ounce Slider Spider Jig. Also works great texas rigged, split shot rigged, or when drop shotting.

Hawghead reply :

Watermelon/Chart zoom lizard. Crawdad pattern cranks bomber model A, Fat A, Wiggle Wart.

guitarkid reply :

Trickworms, and senkos. I know it is two but one is never enough right?

-searoach

Namistia reply :

Here lately my go to bait is a GYCB Kreature, rigged backwards and slow rolled with a few twitches. It is the only constant productive lure in the past 2 months.

garry77 reply :

Trick worms,senko swims,and various colors of a 7 1/2" culprit worm.

terminator t-1 for the reaction strike days

FishingMastah1 reply :

I like Zoom Horny Toads, a spinnerbaits aswell, but i catch more on Horny Toads

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