Baits used for your top 5.

[Mr Swim Jig]

5 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Your name suits you well

Wife started calling me that many years ago...lol

 

She says I have a swim jig fetish...lol

[Raul]

1 Rapala Shad Rap SR7

2 Yum Dinger 4”

3 1/2 oz jig w Brush Hog as trailer

4 1/2 oz jig w Brush Hog as trailer

5 7.5 inch Culprit Ribbontail worm

 

those were the lures that caught my biggest bass, got my first 10 lber with a Rapala Original Floating Minnow size 9.

[long island basser]

1. Netbait B Bug.

2. Jig/craw 3/8

3. Jig/craw 3/8

4. Jig/craw 1/4

5. Netbait Baby Paca Craw.

[Basseditor]

10” Powerworm (4 out of 5 best)

Strike King 6XD (#2 best)

 

two over 10 pounds, the others almost 10

[Burtonxj]

GYCB Senko in Green Pumpkin

SK Coffee Tube in Watermelon Candy

Zoom Fat Albert in Glimmer Blue

Zoom Brush Hog in Africa Special

Duo Realis Spinbait 80 in Prism Clown

 

 

 

 

[HookRz]

I don't keep those kind records, or even bother to weigh/measure fish often, but I'll guess....

 

LM:

Jig and pig, Buzz-bait, Ten inch ribbon tail worm, Zoom finesse Worm, Finesse Tube.

SM:

Tube, Tube, Tube, Ned, Grub. 

 

Honorable mention, Spook, Chug Bug, Devils horse. Caught a lot of big topwater plug fish, I just don't think any would would make my top five outside of a few Buzz-bait monsters. 

[RMax]

 

1. Havoc Pit boss black and blue

2. Shad strike king red eye shad

3. Craw strike king red eye shad

4. Jerkbait that I have no idea the name of

5. Senko Green Pumpkin green, purp flake

[Chris_97TJ]

1. Smithwick Devil’s Toothpick

2. Booyah buzzbait, 1/2oz white

3. Mann’s Jelly Worm - junebug

4. & 5. Culprit ribbontail worm - tequila sunrise

[Can't Catch Bass]

-BPS tourny series 10" motor oil/chartreuse ribbon tail worm

 

-booyah single Colorado blade chartreuse and white spinner with pearl menace grub trailer

 

-rebel crickhopper popper yellow and black

 

-seibert dredge jig black and blue with junebug rage craw trailer

 

-arbogast buzz plug perch

[IndianaFinesse]

Ned rig, shaky head, junior pad crasher, poppin pad crasher, horny toad.  Honorable mention goes to the 2.5" bitsy tube, 3/8 ounce cavitron, and deep little N.

[Ktho]

1. missile d bomb

2. Reins bubbling shaker

3. Megabass Giant Dog X 

4. 6" straight tail roboworm 

5. Coolbaits underspin/keitech fat swing impact

 

 

 

 

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

1. Keiteck 3.8 Fat paddle tail bluegill flash
2. Mepps #1 black fury dressed in-line spinner
3. Senko Bama bug wacky rigged
4. Keitech 3.8" Fat paddle tail bluegill flash
5. Spro Frog Green Tree 65

[crypt]

1.bomber square bill 2.rapala original floating minnow 3.BB Cricket 4 and 5 Bass assassin shad.

[Dtrombly]

1. Pad Crasher 

2. Pad Crasher

3. Pad Crasher

4. Pad Crasher

5. Tube 

 

I like frogs. Lol

[DSTN]

1. CC Super Spot 

2. Chatterbait

3. Bomber Square A

4. Chatterbait

5. Whopper Plopper 90

[A-Jay]

Green Bass ~                        Brown Bass ~

  Sk Red Eye Shad                   Spinnerbait                      

  Spinnerbait                           Jerkbait

  Jig / Senko                            Jerkbait

  Scrounger/ Fluke                    Jerkbait

  Football Jig / 10 Inch Worm     Jerkbait 

 

A-Jay                 

[TnRiver46]

Largemouth:

Texas rig zoom swamp crawler(8lb)

3/4 oz silver buddy (8lb)

cheap buzz bait (8 lb) 

black/blue jig (7lb) 

Live threadfin shad (6lb)

 

smallmouth:

Bitsy tube (5-6 lb)

chrome blue back ratLtrap (5lb)

Shakey head zoom dead ringer(5 lb)

live shad (lots of 4-5 lbers)

live stonerollers (lots of 4-5 lbers)

[thinkingredneck]

Largemouth

zoom trick worm candy bug were top 3 (in MS)

zoom speed worm june bug (in FL)

white and cartreuse tandem spinner (in MS)

 

SMB

Gold in line spinner (in MN)

[fishindad]

Like others, I don't keep such detailed records and practice CIR most of the time. My best guess for the lures that took my biggest bass would be:

 

Baby Bass Magnet crankbait

5" single tail grub (Kalin or Yamamoto)

5" Senko

Fat Ika

4" tube

 

 

[camman]

1.  4" Roboworm

2.  8" Hudd

3.  68 Hudd

4.  5" Senko

5.  68 Hudd

[burrows]

23 hours ago, Mr Swim Jig said:

Wife started calling me that many years ago...lol

 

She says I have a swim jig fetish...lol

Hey hey hey let's keep it ph13 here there's kids on this forum. 

[Alan Reed]

1. Zoom Fluke

2. Booyah Pond Magic Spinnerbait

3. Zoom Fluke

4. Strike King 2.5 Squarebill

5. Strike King 2.5 Squarebill

[MassYak85]

1a. Wacky Rigged Stick-O

1b. Lethal Weapon SwimJig + Keitech Fat Impact

2. Wiggle Wart

3. Small Football Jig

4. Spro Rat 40 size

 

[scaleface]

I didnt list smallmouths earlier. Thees are for river smallies

 

Generic popper

Jig n pig 

tube

Strike King  Mini Spin

Lunker Lure

[Cgolf]

Probably the biggest was a largemouth I caught when I wax around 12 on vacation in Florida on a 2" yellow twister tail. Some 30 years later I remember the hit but not the size of the fish other than big.