What is your favorite bait to cover water?

[fishingtx]

Simple what are your favorite baits to cover water?  Your favorite in the morning/evening and afternoon for every season. 

 Summer:                                       Fall:                                                               Winter:                                                               Spring:

M/E-    Buzzbait or frog                    M/E- Buzzbait                                                      M/E-Big walking bait                                       M/E- Buzzbait

A-big swimbait                                      A- little swimbait or chatterbait                         A- Any swimbait and jerkbait                        A- Jerkbait

[LrgmouthShad]

Gimme a spinnerbait. There might be a better lure for the job depending on conditions but if I don't have a spinnerbait, I'm not happy. I don't care if it's morning, afternoon, or evening. I don't care if the water is clear, stained, muddy, blue, purple, green, pink. I don't care if the season is winter, summer, spring, fall, or whatever the heck the past month or two has been. 

[zell_pop1]

Xcalibur one knocker. Works all seasons and you can cast it further and cover more water than about anything else.

[Bird]

Long casts looking for feeding fish with moving baits.

Spinnerbaits

Swim Jigs

Buzzbaits - whopper ploppers

Flukes and Assassins.

 

 

[Mike L]

Most baits for me are conditions based.
But to just cover water in most situations

I usually start with a Rage Cut R, UV Speed Worm or a RI Skinny Dipper. 
 

 

 

 

Mike
 

 

[T-Billy]

Swing Impact Fat sees alot of action these days. Ice out till ice over.

[Mbirdsley]

Spring time:chatter bait 

summer: crank bait 

fall: jerk bait 

[gim]

I’m a spinnerbait guy too. Although if the water is colder a chatterbait will work.

[PressuredFishing]

Topwaters are my confidence and go to moving bait for bites, larger swimbaits are my scouting tool.

[king fisher]

Where I fish, Buzz Bait, August through February.  March - July  Spinnerbait in wood or grass, Crankbaits in rocks.

[bowhunter63]

Spinnerbait so many ways to fish one 

[Aaron_H]

No need for seasons/time of day, my answer is lipless crankbait for all of them. Situationally I will throw a chatterbait instead.

[Skunkmaster-k]

3” paddle tail swimbait on a 1/4 oz ball head jig .

[papajoe222]

A RedEye Shad, Especially if I'm fishing around weeds. Like a spinnerbait, I can cover the entire water column and it works great for yo-yoing around transition areas.

[FishTank]

A lipless crankbait or a heavier chatter bait. It use to be a spinnerbait but as of late nothing will bite one. 

[WRB]

Sonar unit to find bass and lures to catch them where I found them.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

Bladed jig

[NorcalBassin]

3.3 Keitech on a 3/16oz head if I'm just covering water looking for fish. M/A/E

[Columbia Craw]

Crankbait

[Hammer 4]

A spinnerbait is the first lure that  gets tossed. It's tough trying to change what has worked so well for many yeras.

[NoShoes]

Probably a lipless. 

[fishingtx]

11 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

3” paddle tail swimbait on a 1/4 oz ball head jig .

That is fire hear in Texas.

8 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

3.3 Keitech on a 3/16oz head if I'm just covering water looking for fish. M/A/E

 

[DitchPanda]

Spring -buzz bait

Summer -swim jig

Fall - spinnerbait 

Winter - ice auger 

[scaleface]

I have three favorites / Spinnerbait , buzzbait and crankbait .

[EWREX]

early spring and prespawn: jerkbait, chatterbait, 2.8"-4" keitech on a ball head

prespawn and spawn: flat sided crankbait, wiggle wart, chatterbait

post spawn all the way to fall: chatterbait, swim jig, topwater, jerkbait