What Is Your Confidence Bait?

[arkman]

Texas rigged red shad Culprit worm.

[bullett 21]

Pig&Jig-  Dropshot.

[Bluebasser86]

Jig

[Sherlock 60]

5" Yamamoto Senko in Watermelon Pepper, Smoke Pearl Blue or Junebug. Rigged weightless.

[bartdude186]

Either a weightless pearl white super fluke, or a 5" Senko or Yum Dinger, weightless as well.I can catch fish all year long on those baits in my waters.

[Grantman83]

Soft Plastic Jerkbait...I can make that thing dance..

 

My goal for this season is to become a good jig fisherman...

[WSOzzie]

T-rig 7" worm - pumpkinseed

[Nodda4me]

NSCB jig with Rage Craw, or, if I only had like 10-20 minutes, I'd probably start with topwater, Rapala Shallow Shad Rap.  It also depends on what time it is. Bass usually slam top water during 6-8 AM where I fish.

[coak]

Inline spinner............underrated/overlooked by many bass fisherman and flat out catch fish

[Siebert Outdoors]

Black and Blue Big O Brush jig in 3/8-1/2oz.

[LuckyHandsINC.]

My number one confidence bait is a zoom fluke in glimmer blue color.

I use it in the top of the water column 99.9% of the time.

If I want to get deep my go to bait is a 1/2oz football head custom tied on a revenge jig head.

[J Francho]

My confidence bait changes, sometimes throughout the day, over a a few weeks, or season.  When I figure out what the fish are doing, and start getting bit, I develop confidence in a particular bait.  Could be a jig, crankbait, soft plastic, frog, you name it.  It really depends on the water and the fish.  I have a ton of confidence in a frog on my noontime shore spots.  But on Erie, I have another couple lures that are my go to - a frog is not one of them. 

 

I will say, I throw a jig just about anywhere I fish. So if you had to pin me down to just one, that's it.

[Hawghead]

I like a sort of hybrid rigged baby brush hog.  I guess its is a speedier and simpler version of a Carolina Rig.  I simply clamp on a split shot about 15-18 inches above plastic bait, but the splitshot is below the bullet weight. It lacks the clackers and noise of the C-Rig, but is much faster to retie and adjust as needed.

 

I also am gaining confidence it my jig with a crag trailer.  Other confidence baits are senko styles lures T-rigged weightless, or  Bomber Model A's in brown crawdad. 

[Lip 'em!]

Anything on a shaky head!

[AndyTN]

A 3.5" tender tube with a 1/8oz tube jig. Second would be a 10" T-rigged worm in a dark June bug.