What's your Favorite Trailer? (soft plastics: trailers, ds, flippin', worms...)

[clemsondds]

I’m trying to condense how I carry my soft plastics on my boat. I have to keep my boat in storage and don’t trust the security so I don’t leave anything on my boat. I’ve been carrying two large kvd bags but they have started to look a little rough and so I picked up one of those Zman bags. I am going to try to keep these particular things in this bag:

ig trailers (winter/summer…) : this is my biggest mix of rage craws, chunks, jr chunks, netbait paca, speed craws, rage bugs, yamamoto cowboy, twin tail grubs, and then several for finesse jigs...

-Chatterbait/swim jig trailers:  rage menace, sk zcraw/jr, xzone...

 

-Creature/ flipping baits  beavers :reaction innovations, rage bug, rodent, gb bandito bug, various craws...

 

-drop shot baits: lots of roboworm, missile, dreamshot, zman trick...

I noticed that I have tons of each one of these. I am going to try to keep one or maybe two brands of each category and that’s it. So what’s your go to for each of those? If you could only carry one bag with a few colors of each soft plastic, which would you choose?

[J Francho]

Here's the plastics I buy the most of:

 

Ragetail Craw

Ragetail Menace

GYCB 5" Senko

Jackall 4.8 Flick Shake Worms

Jackall Cross Tail Shad

[scaleface]

I like Yum Dingers because they weigh more than traditional  worms ,making them   easier to pitch and a lot less expensive than senkos. Also I can then use the torn up ones as Ned baits . As far as casting I'm not picky . Jelly worms , trick worms , generic worms... bass bite them all .Throw in some tubes and I'm pretty much set .

[Darth-Baiter]

GY Senkos.  color 925.

Zoom - Z-drops, lizards, and small brush hogs, trick worms, and the 8" ribbon tail.

Zman - Palmetto bugs, finesse TRD, large TRD, Fatty Z.

 

those are my main dishes.  

 

[Mobasser]

I use a mix of stuff. Zoom, Slider, Yamamoto, Roboworm. Zoom is always available so I use them the most.

[Spankey]

I use a mix also. But I use more Berkley and RoboWorm plastics. 
 

I’m more of a crankbait fanatic but love using soft plastics. 

[JustJames]

Roboworm 6” fat 

you can use this for many techniques, dropshot, weightless, weight Texas rig, Neko and shakey head.

Rage craw

Jig/swim jig trailer, chatterbait trailer, flipping/pitching. 
Senko/Fatika 

when the bite get tough.

 

Now you can call yourself “minimalist” ???

[AlabamaSpothunter]

7 minutes ago, Bass_Fishing_SoCal said:

Roboworm 6” fat 

you can use this for many techniques, dropshot, weightless, weight Texas rig, Neko and shakey head.

Rage craw

Jig/swim jig trailer, chatterbait trailer, flipping/pitching. 
Senko/Fatika 

when the bite get tough.

 

Now you can call yourself “minimalist” ???

6", 6" Fat, and 7".    I couldn't pick a favorite between the three types, but there is nothing close to them in my book.    A 6" on a shakey head will keep you skunk free.

[king fisher]

Zoom- Trick worm, Magnum Trick worm, Ole monster.  Green Pumkin, Watermelon candy, and Junebug.

 

Gary Yamamoto -- 7 inch, and 5 inch Senko. Black blue flake, Junebug, Green pumkin.

 

Reaction Innovations -- Skinny dipper, and little dipper.  Purple smoke.  Spicy Beaver- Hematoma, Sexy shad.

 

Strike King-- Rage Bug and Rage Craw.  Okeechobee Craw, Falcon Lake Craw

[CM-fisher]

Yamamoto senko, yum dingers, rage menace, roboworms, zoom finesse worms, TRD's, and rage swimmers are about all I need. I keep about 2-3 colors of each (usually grn pumpkin and black/blue)

[LonnieP]

Worms- Berkley Power Worm, Zoom Ole Monster, Mag II, and Ultravibe Speed worm

Jig Trailers= Rage Craw, Ultravibe Speed Craw and Missile Mini D chunk

Dropshot- Zoom Finesse worms and Roboworm

[RB 77]

I'm a worm dragger and could get away with just a few types of baits to be honest...

 

6" straight worm

6" Stik worm

6" Lizard

Compact creature (think BBH)

5" Fluke

Craw type trailer 

 

Of course I have and fish way more options than these, but I feel like I could get it done with just these. As far as colors go, just as simple...

 

Watermelon

Pumpkin

Green Pumpkin

Junebug

Black

Shad

 

Again, I have and use a ton of colors, but can get it done with just a few. 

[Big Hands]

I have one 3700 regular box, a 3700 thick box which also holds my shakey heads, ned heads, and swimbait jig heads along with the plastics), and one side pouch on my tackle satchel that I keep plastics in, and that's it. And, to let you know how much I fish plastics, EVERY bass I caught in 2021 (and I average close to once a week fishing) was caught on plastics.

 

I do have a one quart size ziplock bag with plastics I usually only throw at night, that I will put in the boat for the four or five nights we're allowed to fish here, but it resides in the garage the rest of the time.

 

I have one 3700 box for crankbaits, and another 3700 box for terminal tackle and a few slabs. All of that fits in my satchel along with leader line, scissors, various pliers, a scale, license, sunglasses, and scent.

 

The majority of the plastics I take are Senkos, Keitech Easy Shiners and Swing Impacts, various Roboworms, Jackall Flick-Shakes, C3 Shimmy's (a local product), and a few other assorted oddball offerings and it all fits in this bag.

 

If I can't catch fish with my what's in my tackle bag, three to five rods, and a landing net, I need to go home and make better choices next time.

[bowhunter63]

Anything Rage Tail, Zoom or Power Bait. Wacky worming i use several different makes of stick worms. Plus i hit the sale bin at Bass Pro Shops

[Columbia Craw]

There was a recent thread asking what rod , if broken, would you immediately replace?  So with that context, if I ran out of a plastic bait, omitting colors, what will I be replacing?

 

Rage Bug

Rage Space Monkey

Rage Craw

Rage Ned Craw

KVD Finesse worm

Robo Worm Fat

Zoom Trick Worm

Zoom Super Chunk

Zoom Brush Hogs 

GYB Senko

GYB Zako

BBB Swimmon 

Hog Farmer Spunk Shad

Berkely Flat Worm

RI Man Bear Pig

 

These, for me, are must haves.

[Catt]

Like everyone I to have a nice variety. 

 

I could easily go 100% Zoom & not lose any productivity.

 

This is what I carry boat or bank.

 

The first three are worms; stick, straight tail, curl tail, ribbontail.

 

Next one is craw worms 

 

Next one is creatures & lizards

 

Next one is beaver tails & bugs

 

Next one is frogs

 

 

[Tennessee Boy]

12 hours ago, clemsondds said:

I am going to try to keep one or maybe two brands of each category and that’s it.

Yeah right!   There’s no way the bait monkey is going to let you do that.  ?

[clemsondds]

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Yeah right!   There’s no way the bait monkey is going to let you do that.  ?

LOL True! But I meant in the boat...the bait monkey can wreak havoc in my garage with the tackle I keep in there.  But what I am trying to do is make my decisions more simple when I am on the boat...I am trying to simplify so that I'm not staring at 3 different craw trailers that each. have 3 different colors.  Just kindof want to settle on one brand to carry for each category.  So that's what I was trying to figure out...must not have worded it to well ha. But of those categories, what's your top trailer/pick to carry with you?

[clemsondds]

Ok I guess throw out worms from the question bc there's no way I would go with just one. 

Really I'm just curious what everyone's main/if you could just have one:

jig summer trailer

jig winter trailer

swim jig trailer

chatterbait trailer

flipping bait

 

[Bankbeater]

I carry a little of everything because around here you never know what those bass will be hitting.

Creatures and craws

Jigs

Stick worms in different lengths

Brush Hogs

Finesse Worms

Jig / Chatterbait trailers

[clemsondds]

Thanks. I’m really looking for what trailers do you use. 
for jigs in winter I use sk chunk and summer some sort of rage craw or Yamamoto cowboy

swim jig: rage menace

chatterbait: still not sure…keitech lately

flipping: rage bug 

[Derek1]

1 hour ago, clemsondds said:

Thanks. I’m really looking for what trailers do you use. 
for jigs in winter I use sk chunk and summer some sort of rage craw or Yamamoto cowboy

swim jig: rage menace

chatterbait: still not sure…keitech lately

flipping: rage bug 

All that sounds fine