What is you favorite lure of all time and why?
For me it is the LC pointer
i love jerkait fishing because its fast paced, it covers tons of water and they plain old catch fish!
Close 2nd would be the tried and true spook...in bone. Who doesnt love a topwater blowup?
Trick worms. They flat out catch me fish.
Rage craw caught 200+ fish in a month in northeast Ohio
To fish.................a hollow body frog, at least when they are biting it.
What has caught me the most? Probably to close to call between a jig or a stick/senko type bait.
Plastic worm & it's not even close for me..
Senko
On 12/15/2014 at 1:02 AM, roadwarrior said:Senko
x2
spinnerbait in second place
yellow magic popper. pricey bait, but it just catches lots of fish.
Not even close - a spinnerbait. Its the most versatile lure there is and it allows you to cover territory fast to pick off active fish. Lately some of the time I would have normally devoted to spinnerbaits goes to swim jigs and chatterbaits.
JIG!!!!! so versatile and catches giant bass
Tough question. For catching, it would have to be a Senko type bait. For throwing and watching and anticipating a strike, it would be the Rage Shad. Better stop there.
Caught my pb on a jig, so thats going to be my answer.
The Rapala Original Minnow 11G with star foil. The first bass I ever caught using a hardbait was with one of these lures. This particular lure has never been fished and of all the lures in my collection, it is definitely my favorite.
I can't. I just can't.
My favorite lure of all time hands down, the hollow body frog.
On 12/15/2014 at 1:45 AM, flipin4bass said:The Rapala Original Minnow 11G with star foil. The first bass I ever caught using a hardbait was with one of these lures. This particular lure has never been fished and of all the lures in my collection, it is definitely my favorite.
I did a ton of damage on river smallie with one of those!
On 12/15/2014 at 12:48 AM, Alonerankin2 said:Plastic worm & it's not even close for me..
X2
Hootie
7 1/2" Salty Ring Worm in Cinnamon Pepper Neon Jungbug Laminated!
Ring worms have a thicker profile but a thinner body for the hook to penetrate.
Cinnamon Pepper Neon Jungbug Laminated (Camo) is visible in various water clarities & at night.
Either an inline spinner or a Rapala Original Floater.
Frogs are so much fun to to catch fish on. Jigs are 2nd for me because it can be painfully slow sometimes
I can't decide. Three-way tie between senko, tube, and crankbait. Just because they catch fish. Frog or toad when they're biting it.
Beetle spin with a grub. Most reliable bait this past season. Just started getting into fishing, so not a lot of experience. Hoping to expand my productive baits this year.
A strike king 5xd in chart ss
Squarebills or jigs maybe... Hard to pick a favorite!
My hair jigs with pork trailers, caught a lot of big bass on that jig over the years.
Tom
PS, photos posted in the Oldschool horizontal jigging thread.
Jig-n-pig!!
Bait that's caught the most for me: 4 inch finesse worm (KILLER on ponds)
Favorite bait: Hula Popper.
Jitterbug for sure. Thing is sacred in my box. I throw it when nothing is working. Got my pb on it. I want to add another soon
This specific Kinami Palm Tree Watermelon Chartreuse now no longer in production
For me it has to be a trick worm you can use this bait multiple ways. Also the black curlytail grub I've caught tons of fish on this bait. Sorry couldn't say just one
White fluke.
On 12/15/2014 at 1:45 AM, flipin4bass said:The Rapala Original Minnow 11G with star foil. The first bass I ever caught using a hardbait was with one of these lures. This particular lure has never been fished and of all the lures in my collection, it is definitely my favorite.
That old rapala looks almost identical to the Rebel F30S in Gold/Black which is my all time favorite creek fishing bait, especially in the summer.
My all time favorite for anywhere else is the hollow body frog.
Stick worm in Watermelon Seed.
You asked my favorite lure of all time, JITTERBUG, the day I heard that gurgling sound I fell in love with it, love that's still strong after two and a half decades, not my most productive lure.
1/2oz jig
Prob caught more on a Stick/Senko than all the others combined
This ones tuff, on any given day it's the one that's catchin 'em for me. Choose one it would have to be a regular old curly tail worm since that's the first lure I ever bass fished with as a kid and I still use it on a daily basis, no matter the season or conditions.
For me it is a spinnerbait hands down, nothing like burning a spinnerbait in late spring and have a pig smallmouth just smash it so hard you can barely hold on to the rod, there is no better bait for me. My second would have to be the jerkbait, whether it is fishing it fast in warm water or letting it sit for long pauses in the cold there is just something special about a fish hitting a twitch bait.
Senko just plain produces
Second would be a square bill crank
Any of my core TopWater collection....just love the thrill of one getting taken down.
Seems to change from season to season ~
One constant is something that I can Chunk & Wind.
PB was on a Big Red Eye Shad so that one holds a special place in my heart.
A-Jay
BPS lipless 1/2oz catches everything in the lake!!
Mine is definitely a jig. So many ways to fish it. i always have one tied on.
For me its the yellow magic poppers them things are awsome
Plastic worm. Zoom
S-waver is my favorite bait to fish b/c of how fish behave around it.
hollow body frog to watch and anticipate, most fish caught would have to be a lipless
The more I fish, the more I love the spinner bait and how versatile it really is. It's a Humdinger.
Old school basser...
On 12/16/2014 at 9:12 AM, everythingthatswims said:S-waver is my favorite bait to fish b/c of how fish behave around it.
i can't wait to try it out down in florida, im leaving here 12/19
On 12/15/2014 at 4:11 AM, Klebs01 said:Beetle spin with a grub. Most reliable bait this past season. Just started getting into fishing, so not a lot of experience. Hoping to expand my productive baits this year.
I would say that is also mine. I like a white grub and I can go with the blade on or off actually. I use to fish the heck out of those as a kid. They will literally catch any species of fish and size. Through my life I have for sure caught more fish on 1" white grubs then anything.
Now for what is the most productive lure it is more of a technique but it is a dropshot hands down.
On 12/16/2014 at 11:04 AM, hatrix said:I would say that is also mine. I like a white grub and I can go with the blade on or off actually. I use to fish the heck out of those as a kid. They will literally catch any species of fish and size. Through my life I have for sure caught more fish on 1" white grubs then anything.
Now for what is the most productive lure it is more of a technique but it is a dropshot hands down.
Nice. I got a bunch of bluegill, perch, crappie, and the occasional bass on 2 inch yellow mister twisters. Lot more bass and bigger with a 3 inch blue pearl s&p lunker grub. I've thrown mure traditional spinnerbaits a lot too, but the nettle spin seems to out produce them. Not sure if it's the size of the blade or what.
I have not fished one in some time but it is for sure a very productive bait for a lot of species of fish. It was just a lure I threw constantly as a kid. I could go anywhere and that was a lure that would always catch something. I didn't care so much about species or even size as a kid. I wanted to catch any thing I could.
Bass pro knocker.
Why because it works.
When I was a kid it was a Cordell Big-O. I caught a ton of fish on that thing. Now it is a jig.