1St Bass Of 2015 - What Bait?

[Bigsig]

Regular old ball head jig and half a night crawler

[Longlivenyy]

A carbon Rapala Shadow Rap.

[Ringonu]

Ned Rig. 15" bass and the first bass I have caught in over 10 years. Good to be back.

[Steveo-1969]

Caught my first bass of the season yesterday on a SK swim jig with Menace grub trailer.  I won't tell you how little (er, I mean BIG) it was though...

[hoosierbass07]

 My first bass just came about an hour ago!!!!   I'm pumped!  I went kayak fishing for two hours at a small pond and got no bites.  I used a Texas Rigged Yum-Dinger, the Ned Rig, and slider worm on a slider jig head.  No bites at all.  I packed up and decided to drive down to another bigger pond to bank fish for ten minutes before I headed home.  I pulled out the rod with the Ned Rig and made a couple of casts and had a small bite.  I cast again in the area and reeled in a nice sized bass (under two pounds but sill nice sized for the area).  It might have been a pound and a half.  It didn't thrash around but it sure bent my rod some.  It had some power.  Once I got it on shore I noticed the Gopher jig head hook came out real easy.  

[bigbill]

Can't fish yet it's too cold and we still have ice.

But my first bass will be caught on my bps topnocker.

[Matthew2000]

Gambler ugly otter in ripe melon rigged on a 1/4 oz pegged bullet weight.

[RHuff]

Rapala Shadow Rap

[blackmax135]

A little red and white beetle spin

[MadMex]

5" Black with red metal flake Senko rigged wacky rigged. 21" long.

[Drew03cmc]

Ned Rig, green pumpkin and orange on a 1/16 weedless button head jig.

[Felixone]

My first bass of the season was accidental.  I was actually fishing for panfish with a beetle spin.  It was small (maybe 12") bass.  The next one I caught was a monster.  I caught it on a blue/black/silver lipless crankbait.

[Choporoz]

Megastrike Red and Black StrikeBack SpinnerBait

 

That was actually the second one I got to fight.  Lost first one (with green Cut-R) well into a long fight when she broke off my 8# Yo-Zuri.  I should say I broke her off since I had the drag too tight for that rig.

[JoePhish]

XCalibur Rattle Bait Xr25 Chrome/Black

 

It was also my first fish I caught since I moved to Tennessee. 

[frogflogger]

New years day - silver buddy

[Jtrout]

Red eye shad

[paleus]

7" Berkley power worm in blue flake, t-rigged.

[massrob]

I caught my first one on a bait I lost last year and I found it floating in the pond. I grabbed a stick and pulled it in tied it on and two casts later it got inhaled. This fish choked it.It's a sebile squarebill in sunfish flatsided.Probably the perfect bait for that pond.

[ww3869]

zoom meathead in watermelon seed color on a drop shot from the bank. first time ever trying a drop shot.

[JMcCoy1125]

4" Watermelon Red Yum Dinger wacky rigged

[Lacustrine]

Zoom 6" green pumpkin worm, Texas rigged.

[FLStorm]

7" Gambler Ribbon Tail (Junebug)

[lecisnith]

Shadow rap Green Olive. Then two on strike king coffee tube Green Pumpkin.

[scaleface]

Today was my first fishing day of the year. First fish was caught on a beetle spin  like  bait. Then the next 99 were caught on buzzbaits .

[DogBone_384]

So far only pickerel, so I'll let you know when I bag my first LM....  perhaps Sunday, time permitting.  If not, next Friday when I take a family friend's son fishing.  He's currently under chemotherapy treatment but it itching to go.... Gave him this forum's address today.  Hopefully he'll join.