What's The Most Underrated Productive Bait?

[bigbill]

I think the most overlooked bait is the inline spinner. It can be still very productive.

What do you think?

[roadwarrior]

GYCB Fat IKa & Kreature, Rage Tail Eliminator & Shad and MegaStrike MegaBug & MegaTube Craw.

[NJSalt]

a grub.

[the reel ess]

Weightless Trick Worm for me. I have a buddy that kayaks with me and only fishes when he's with me. It's the only lure he uses and he catches them regularly on it.

 

The ol' T-rigged worm. I even usually overlook it in favor of a craw. At one time I'd caught more fish on the plastic worm than all other baits combined.

[ABW]

Dynamite....

 

or a tube of some sort.

[Todd2]

Senko....lol

[Catt]

Craw Worms; Texas Rigged, Rage Rigged, or Carolina Rigged!

[Mike L]

Chatterbait

Pork trailer

Scronger head

Mike

[OkobojiEagle]

a grub.

 

 

 

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[Big C]

Deer Hair Popper, Bass Bug (fly fishing for bass).  Fly fishing is my go to finnesse technique for bass.

[Silas]

Good old SNAGLESS SALLY!

Young un's down here haven't even heard of it.

Pork Chunk trimmed on back.

[KDW96]

1.Good Ole jig,with uncle Josh on it.

2.Black lizard /chartreuse tail.

3.Single spin spinnerbait/ brown&orange skirt.

Just to name a few

[lo n slo]

T Rigged Worm

[nicksmurf111]

I think the most overlooked bait is the inline spinner. It can be still very productive.

 

I agree that it's the most underrated, but I think the grub is more productive.

[bigbill]

With the grub I remember seeing the older experienced guys using them.

Remember a decade +++ ago when the culprit worms with there colored tails where the hot ticket?

[blckshirt98]

The pros killed it this year and last using big spoons (flutter spoon, magnum spoon, etc) but I never see anyone locally or on forums talk about using them to catch any bass.

[ww2farmer]

Grubs, tubes, and ribbon tailed worms are as good as they ever were, yet have seen a sharp decline in use (around here). I myself am guilty of not using tubes much any more, but over the last two years the grub and ribbon tailed worm have returned to my arsenal with gusto.

[Montanaro]

The pros killed it this year and last using big spoons (flutter spoon, magnum spoon, etc) but I never see anyone locally or on forums talk about using them to catch any bass.

I don't have the structure to fish spoons. Most of my lakes are very snaggy with timber. There are a couple spots I want to try though

[bassin is addicting]

Other than what's already been mentioned.

I'd say a good ole black Jitterbug for me

[scaleface]

The Rogers Big Jim . Its so underrated they went out of business .  I've had tremendous success with it the past four years in both quantity and quality .

[MFBAB]

Spoonplugs

 

I'd say anything that the pros aren't currently using tends to be underused. 

[Deleted account]

a grub.

 

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[papajoe222]

I'm with you on the in-line spinners as being underrated. Those and beetle spins. Not what I'd consider a big fish baits, but when it comes to numbers those are the two 'hard' baits that come to mind.

[jitterbug127]

Tube has served me well

[Bluebasser86]

Tubes or regular ribbon tail worms. Neither gets talked about a whole bunch but both will catch fish in nearly every condition.