Best Overall Year-Round Lure(Soft Plastic)

[RyneB]

bps 3.5" tender tube with a 3/16 or 5/16 reins tungsten with a 1/0 trokar tube hook

[MickD]

On 11/16/2016 at 11:15 PM, riverbasser said:

Since you specify plastic it's Easy. The Texas rig plastic worm. You can go ahead and close this topic

Looks based on the number of posts that most didn't believe the topic should be closed.

 I'll go go for a tube.  Warm water, cold water, smallies, largemouths, shallow, docks, beds, deep, pike, muskies, walleyes.  A little limited in heavy weeds, but that's about its only down side.

[Dogmatic]

Stick with what I know, a senko, but the grub, tube, and super fluke would be acceptable replacements.

[craww]

Trigged  Berkley Power Worm or Senko. Use of bullet weight, size of weight, etc as conditions dictate.  Prefer fishing senkos weightless like most, but I sure caught alot of fish with a weight before I "knew" better.

[Mike L]

On 11/17/2016 at 5:40 PM, JigMaster4 said:

If i could only use one soft plastic it would be a beaver style bait. Because I can t-rig, shakeyhead it, and use it as a jig trailer.

Ditto 

 

Mike 

[Big Swimbait]

7" Blue Fleck Power Worm. If the T-rig isn't on I'll slow roll it on a swinging jig head.

[Bankbeater]

Probably a 6" grape/purple plastic worm.

[blckshirt98]

Yamamoto Pro Senko Long - you can T-rig, C-rig, wacky, shakey, dropshot, anything it, and, can trim it down if you need a shorter length.

[Cgolf]

I'm with the two voting for a tube. You can work it up in the water column to imitate a baitfish and bounce it off the bottom to imitate a craw. The fact that I can imitate the prey a bass feeds on throughout the year with one bait makes it an easy choice. Other baits may do better certain times of the year, but a tube will be consistent the whole year 

[Stingray23]

I'll take a grub over anything for an all year around plastic. Tube would be second.

[Drew03cmc]

1/2 Zinkerz in PBJ or New Money on a 1/16 #1 Ned head. I can swim it, jig it, dead stick it, flip it, skip it, burn it on top or do anything else I need to do. 

[Preytorien]

For me a year-round producer is definitely a Ned Rig. I almost get sick of saying it, but those things do well for me here in Indiana all the time. Basically even on the worst of the super hot summer days, or windy cold November days, those things will at least catch me SOMETHING, even bluegill.

[RB 77]

Another vote for the plastic worm. I prefer the 6" straight tail variety in purple, black or green.

[Hot Rod Johnson]

2 hours ago, Preytorien said:

For me a year-round producer is definitely a Ned Rig. I almost get sick of saying it, but those things do well for me here in Indiana all the time. Basically even on the worst of the super hot summer days, or windy cold November days, those things will at least catch me SOMETHING, even bluegill.

Have you ever fished the Gary Yamamoto 2" Senko in Green/Pumpkin and Watermelon/Red on the Ned Rig?

[NYWayfarer]

Senko's 5" texas or wacky rigged, 4" or less for drop shots

Zman TRD for Ned rig and dropshotting.

[Outdoor Zack]

I used to think that the answer was the 5'' senko.  But the 7'' finesse worm is turning into my favorite now.  But they will both catch fish 

[hunterPRO1]

texas rigged worm, i don't care what temperature, time of year, depth or anything else, there is a fish that will eat the worm SOMEWHERE.

 

you can use a ribbon tail or senko but a worm in general.

[Spankey]

My season unfortunately is not year round. But a 4 1/2" finesse worm rig of some type. Fishing a grub would also be there as a very close second. I take it that you are referring to using a soft plastic or style that will produce all season, not necessarily that its your preferred way to fish all season.     

[fishmount]

Over all the great baits listed above, the best, most productive for me, year 'round is the Yamamoto Fat Ika in green pumpkin or black/red on an EWG 5/0 red hook, reversed hooked.  But, you have to know how to fish this great bait.

[OCdockskipper]

On 11/23/2016 at 5:50 AM, Drew03cmc said:

1/2 Zinkerz in PBJ or New Money on a 1/16 #1 Ned head. I can swim it, jig it, dead stick it, flip it, skip it, burn it on top or do anything else I need to do. 

This ^, although I use the TRD instead of cutting the ZinkerZ and my go to color is California Craw (different strokes for different parts of the country).  

Extremely versatile and extremely effective for me, both for numbers & big fish. 

On 11/23/2016 at 8:21 AM, Hot Rod Johnson said:

Have you ever fished the Gary Yamamoto 2" Senko in Green/Pumpkin and Watermelon/Red on the Ned Rig?

While I prefer GYB Senko's over imitators when fishing stick baits, they aren't as effective on a Ned rig as ZMan baits.  They don't float like the TRD's/Zinkers so the bait doesn't stand up and the Senko's get torn up very quickly.  It isn't unusual for a TRD to last through 50 fish.  

Senko's are great baits, I just don't see the Ned rig as the best application for them.

 

[Preytorien]

On 11/23/2016 at 11:21 AM, Hot Rod Johnson said:

Have you ever fished the Gary Yamamoto 2" Senko in Green/Pumpkin and Watermelon/Red on the Ned Rig?

I have not. I imagine it'd be a similar level of success though, anytime the fishing gets tough downsizing seems to do the trick and a 2" senko would probably fit the bill. 

[Hot Rod Johnson]

7 hours ago, Preytorien said:

I have not. I imagine it'd be a similar level of success though, anytime the fishing gets tough downsizing seems to do the trick and a 2" senko would probably fit the bill.

I would think that even the "Wackey Rig" would work very good.

[Knightiac]

Easily a texas rigged trick worm. Second, would be a craw rigged weedless on a roundball jig head. 

[iceintheveins]

I might have to say a straight tail worm.

[Burtonxj]

Texas rigged Ultravibe Speed Craw