One lure only.

[flatcreek]

Zoom Speedworm junebug 

1/4 oz slip sinker Texas rig

[bowhunter63]

Green Pumpkin Rage craw Rage rigged 

[keagbassr]

Spinnerbait-chart./wht. Sz. 4.5 gold willow over Sz. 2 nickel colo.

[jimmyjoe]

   Average of all year long? The 3/4 Hank Parker Classic from Mann's, Colorado and Indiana. It really pains me to take that over the 3/4 Silver Minnow or 1 oz. Dardevle in red & white, but I gotta do what I gotta do.   ?      jj

[optimator]

Black 6" Productolure Tournament worm. 

[Jim Sutter]

Grumpy Dangler, Jigfishn10, LrgmouthShad, Munkin, fishwizzard, Fred Allen, smallieKing7, TriStateBassin, Plottman1974, MGF, Hammer 4, and Michigander, thank you for listing your choice of one lure to catch bass. Hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful and safe weekend. The people on this forum are really great.

[NYWayfarer]

Z-man TRD in green pumpkin.

 

Tiny Child Rigged was responsible for 3 PB species in 2020 LMB, Channel Cat and Chain Pickerel 

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1 hour ago, fishwizzard said:

Well if we’re picking lures based on the need to smuggle one into a POW camp, then I’m going to have to consider my answer very carefully.

Started out as green pumpkin and ended (pun intended) up dirty Sanchez...

 

[Jim Sutter]

flatcreek, bowhunter63, keagbasser, Jimmyjoe, optimater, NYWayfarer and BassWhole, thank you for your information. Please take care and have a wonderful and safe weekend.

[Spankey]

4 hours ago, InfantryMP said:

I will catch flack for this probably, but oh well...

 

I would use the Googan Baits Bandito Bug in either Natural or Okeechobee Craw.  You can flip it, Carolina rig it, T-rig it, and also you can swim it T-rigged and has great action doing so. I believe it to be versatile enough to handle a few different scenarios. 

I could not resist buying a pack of krackin craws jr. in Natural. I feel that good about that color patter. I’m not playing all that pro/anti Googan stuff. That Natural color pattern is nice and I hope to catch a decent one one it. It will work. 

[BlakeMolone]

1 hour ago, Plottman1974 said:

TRD Peanut Butter and Jelly ned bait on a Berkley ned jig head (I cannot remember the exact name of the Berkley ned jigs but they are awesome).  

Love the berkley half heads, and at 50 cents a piece I don’t feel like I’m getting ripped off.

[Jim Sutter]

BlakeMolone,

Thank you, for that information. I appreciate you chiming in. Have a great weekend and stay safe.

[Deephaven]

You guys and all the finesse stuff.  He didn't ask that you try to win a tournament vs the others with just one, but he did ask if it could be only one what it is.  

[Bankbeater]

Strike King 3/8 Bitsy Flip in black/blue.  Trailer will probably be a Super Chunk jr. in black, or green pumpkin.

[LrgmouthShad]

9 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

You guys and all the finesse stuff.  He didn't ask that you try to win a tournament vs the others with just one, but he did ask if it could be only one what it is.  

Different ways to interpret his question. I think all interpretations are welcome. There were some responses that were definitely not finesse

[Plottman1974]

25 minutes ago, BlakeMolone said:

Love the berkley half heads, and at 50 cents a piece I don’t feel like I’m getting ripped off.

agree.  I have probably tried 15 different heads and those are the best thus far.  Eagle Claw, believe it or not, makes a ned jig that is a close second.  

[Deephaven]

4 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Different ways to interpret his question. I think all interpretations are welcome. There were some responses that were definitely not finesse

Perhaps if you read what I wrote as a reaction to how I fish and not others it would be what is meant.  Just using a different mechanism to make others think about that.

[a1712]

8 hours ago, a1712 said:

4"-5" paddletail swimbait, watermelon hue of some sort. Brian.

I picked this because I feel this is the most all around bait. It can be ran through anything, any depth and pretty much any technique. I've used them as a T-Rigged worm, on the top over and through pads/grass/matts, punched, swam at any depth, weightless like a fluke, dead sticking, dang near anyway you can think to fish a bait. Brian.

[LrgmouthShad]

8 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Perhaps if you read what I wrote as a reaction to how I fish and not others it would be what is meant.  Just using a different mechanism to make others think about that.

Okay, gotchu. I like your style of fishing ?

[throttleplate]

8 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

That color does not get a lot of attention but it’s my favorite color by far. When I rig it, I have the watermelon side on top when sunny and down when overcast. 

never thought of hooking it like that but will do so come spring. I hide this color of worm from my wife, i keep the pack tucked away in my pocket or bank bag. Its the only secret i keep from her.

[Scott804]

Vision 110, Ozark Shad. 

[Smells like fish]

There has been hundreds of times that I did just that. I would take a balsa jerkbait, a spinning rod and reel and spend half a day walking and casting in moving water for brown bass. If I am after green bass in still waters I’d want my pockets filled with 5” GYCB Senko in a green color. 

[Sphynx]

After much deliberation, I have decided these rules suck and I do not like them, that being said, I'd probably have to go with a senko style bait, probably a Yum Dinger knowing how much of a tightwad I am about it, and it would be green pumpkin if I could only have one color, add black/blue if I could do multiple, I'd probably go with a 4/0 offset round bend, probably an Owner, and probably a 1/4oz bullet weight, fishing the whole thing on a 7ish foot MF spinning combo 2500 sized reel, 15lb braid to a 8 or 10lb mono leader, I feel that between switching weightless to weighted Texas rig, I could get as near as possible to having all three levels of the water column covered, and you can fish a stick bait like 7384859596 different ways...I hate that I've posted this, and if the old lady ever hacks my phone you lot had better tell her that one of you hacked my account and posted that for me, because I'm denying that these words ever came outta my fingers til my dying day.

1 hour ago, Spankey said:

I could not resist buying a pack of krackin craws jr. in Natural. I feel that good about that color patter. I’m not playing all that pro/anti Googan stuff. That Natural color pattern is nice and I hope to catch a decent one one it. It will work. 

I've never really understood the argument, the baits catch fish well enough, if you want them and aren't skipping mortgage payments or whatever to buy them I don't see any trouble at all with using the products, my guess is if you took every worm on the market and got rid of them except for one, I don't think it would really make as much difference as we like to believe...some difference? Sure, but it's not like fishing a (insert preferred brand here) lure is going to catch anymore fish than any other companies worm if you don't put it where it's supposed to be for the fish to find it.

[PhishLI]

If the bassin gods took away all my toys, but left me with a choice of just one, that would be easy. The Megabass Hazedong Shad 4.2 in Green Pumkin Blue,  NUMA EBI, or Moroku, rigged on an Ownwer TwistLock Light Weighted CPS 5/0 3/32oz(5167W-705)

 

This bait can be fished anywhere. Through Lily pads, on top, middle, and bottom, and just about any way imaginable. Just about perfectly weedless. Go to a lighter hook to change things up for a slower fall. There's nowhere that it doesn't get bit and everything wants to eat it.

 

 

[cheezyridr]

i don't pay much attention to who makes what, so i don't know the brand. 

 

but i would choose a ½ oz spinnerbait in firetiger, with the biggest willow blades i can find, preferably hammered ones. i don't even need a trailer.