What Were Your Top 3 Baits for 2010?

[tholmes]

1. Culprit 7.5" ribbon tail worm - Tequila Sunrise color

2. SK Red-Eye Shad - Sexy Shad or chrome/blue

3. Shaky-head jig w/ black 4" grub

3a. Storm Wiggle-Wart - brown craw

Tom

[Jigfishn10]

In no particular order:

Custom short arm single blade spinnerbait

Spook Jr or Spit n Image (each pretty much got equal time)

Homemade jig with either a chunk trailer or single tail grub

[lsufan334]

1. Tungstem pegged Zoom Super Speed Craw Watermelon/Red

2. Hack Attack Jig

3. Chart/Blk squarebill crank (H2O)

Honorable Mention 3/16oz shakey head with zoom finesse watermelon/red  (Got me out of alot of bad days )

[I.rar]

fluke/jrs

4" and 5" stick baits

kut tails

[5bass]

- 1/4 oz football jig

- DD22

- top secret jerkbait  ;D

[brushhoggin]

1. A drop shot plastic which will remain anonymous.

but you can tell us southern guys since they wont bite em down here.  ;D

as for me, well they don't call me brushhoggin for nuthin

[NorCalFishinguru]

Probably flipping/ punching a beaver, hopping and dragging a t-rigged brush hog and third may be a senko because they work at all lakes all year in all types of vegetation.

I'd guess that the secret d-shot bait that they're talking about mimicks a goby and wouldn't have the same effect in most of the country where, unlike Erie, the lakes aren't loaded with gobies. I could be wrong but that's what I'd guess

[tkite16]

1) rc 2.5dd chartruse with black back

2) black and blue eakins jig

3) brown 4 inch tube

[bigfruits]

1/4 bitsy bug (green craw) baby rage craw (grn pumpkin)

3" crazy legs chigger craw (black blue flake) 1/8-3/16oz tungsten worm weight - i peg it tight with an eagle claw bobber stop and it seems to stand straight on the bottom, great action/small profile

4" senko

[Goose52]

- 1/4 oz football jig

- DD22

- top secret jerkbait ;D

That's the first one that surprised me! I'm a Luhr Jensen Hot-Lips Express fan myself and I hope to get in some more deep-cranking next year...

[northern basser]

1)  6" and 7" Senkos

2) Lipless cranks (variety)

3) Tie-  buzzbaits and spinnerbaits

[shootermcbob]

Senko... of some type..cabelas, yum dinger, GYCB, etc

Cabelas shallow grave digger crankbait in bombay/lime

Spinnerbait

[soopd]

1/2 oz football jig

10" monster worms

3" grub

[stanfan]

spring  - white swim jig w/tail of white swim senko

summer  - zoom G tail worm  green pumpkin

fall  - zoom ultra vibe speed worm  green pumpkin

winter  - ??? lake frozen already

[Bryce C]

1) jig

2) shallow square bill cranks

3) swim jig w/ small swimbait trailer

[guitarkid]

7" fish stalker finesse worm - watermelon with gold flake

Original Rapala Floater - silver black back

Bed bug jig with mad man craw trailor - black/blue

    -gk

[philsoreel]

1-Shakeyhead w/Strikezone Shake-up Head worms

2-Bouncing Bandit cranks off hard-cover

3-Carolina Rigging Robo straight tails

Honorable Mention- LC Wake Shads. Didn't catch get the numbers but got alot of bigger fish.

[Lund Explorer]

Sorry Goose, but I carry at least seven different rods out on the deck everytime I hit the water. 

If I had to choose the top three, I could tell you that the top producer was probably a T-Rig 7" Power Worm with any one of five or six colors.

After that, it would be a tie between a Pop-R, Lipless Crankbaits, Lipped Crankbaits, Spinnerbaits, Jigs, Tubes, Grubs, Asst'd Drop-Shots..... plus a few others.

Did you know that the Bait Monkey has a cousin who deals in walleye baits?   

[Goose52]

Sorry Goose, but I carry at least seven different rods out on the deck everytime I hit the water.

I usually have six different rods...in my 12' canoe! But at the end of the day, only 3 types of baits caught 90% of the fish... That number might change next year as I wean myself from my primary confidence bait.

Now, we haven't heard yet from the folks that carry 27 rods on their boat... ;D

[frogflogger]

1. Furbit

2. Furbit

3. Sebile soft swimmer

[Sam]

Senko

Shad Rapp

Sexy Shad Crankbait 

[Lund Explorer]

Sorry Goose, but I carry at least seven different rods out on the deck everytime I hit the water.

I usually have six different rods...in my 12' canoe! But at the end of the day, only 3 types of baits caught 90% of the fish... That number might change next year as I wean myself from my primary confidence bait.

Now, we haven't heard yet from the folks that carry 27 rods on their boat... ;D

Try not to take it personally when I say you've cursed me into making up a new fishing log for 2011.  I used to keep a very complete log during my tournament days, but I've let it slip the last couple of years.

The more I look at what I "could" keep track of, the bigger the spreadsheet gets! 

[Goose52]

Try not to take it personally when I say you've cursed me into making up a new fishing log for 2011. I used to keep a very complete log during my tournament days, but I've let it slip the last couple of years.

The more I look at what I "could" keep track of, the bigger the spreadsheet gets!

Sorry! I probably don't record as much as some folks do - for instance, the only environmental factor I record is surface water temp - others record whether they're fishing on a rising or falling barometer, time of day, etc.

One thing I didn't record in 2010 was number of fishing days. I record my catch, but there are some days :-? when I get skunked - not that often, but it happens, especially in the middle of a heat wave, when fishing from the bank that day... I guess I'll fix that for 2011.

[Catt]

Gene Larew 7 1/2" Salty Ringworm Cinnamon Pepper Neon Junebug Laminated

Terry Oldham's Eye-Max Jig & Strike King Rage Lobster

Rattle HeadTM Spinner Bait

Biggest surprise Sidewinder by Stanley 

[mudkart]

1. Lipless cranks (Aruku shad 75 or Clackin rap 8, color does not seem to matter).

2. Roboworm Zipper shakin or straight tail on a shakey head (typically 6", pick your color, as above) .

3. Fat Ika when fishing grass beds (any of the black/blue/green pumpkin colors).

Honorable mention: Keitech swing impact FAT, 4.8" or 5.8", has worked very well in my lineup this year as a new addition.

Aruku shad (bass + snakehead):

Zipper shakin: