Most bass in 2023: Which lure?

[Swamp Girl]

Piggy-backing off of A-Jay's thread, which of your lures do you think will cast the most bass in 2023?

 

Mine will be a Whopper Plopper. Maine bass love it and I love surface strikes, so I fish it a lot. Plus, it catches many of biggest fish, so it's not just a quantity lure. 

[Tennessee Boy]

This is the hardest question that has been asked on this forum all week. ?

 

 Probably a Zoom Trickworm but I wouldn’t bet on it.

[Jmontgomery87]

I'm thinking a spook, trick worm, or spinnerbait; but every bass I've caught so far this year has come on a Keitech swing impact.

[king fisher]

6th Sense cloud nine C 10 crankbait.

[ATA]

For me it is always 5" junebug Senko.

[GreenPig]

Soft Jerkbait 

[a1712]

4" Elder Magic Yum Dinger, by a long shot. Brian. 

[casts_by_fly]

Definitely a jig if you’re not going to make me specify between a vibrating jig, a swim jig, and a pitchin jig. Probably 2x over the next highest. 

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Mine will be a Whopper Plopper.

Hopefully. Maybe. The Whopper Plopper is a real mystery. It's hot, or dead cold. From '17 through the middle of '19 I caught one dink throwing them. From the middle of '19 thru the middle of '20 it was pure fire in my lakes. I could've casted it into the woods and pulled out a fish. Since then, crickets. It's crazy. However, a particular wake bait has picked up the slack. Nothing in the category outproduced these two last year, and perhaps it'll be a repeat this year, but I 'aint holding my breath.

 

Livingston Bullnose.

 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Ned rig, not even a question I have to consider. Not that my season is off to a blazing start but I've probably caught 40 bass so far this season and a Ned has accounted for at least 30 of those. 

[Swamp Girl]

PhishLi, I too found the Whopper Plopper to be hot and cold. I'd catch bass with it on one pond and a couple days later, nothing at the same pond. Then a week later, the bass at that very same pond would be walloping it again.

 

I like wake baits too. The bass clearly like that bottom wake bait of yours. It looks like a musky lure!

[Munkin]

Most bass is a toss up between a spinnerbait and Ned TRD Bug? Most weight definitely goes to the spinnerbait. After $3k to fix my boat the answer may change this year after hitting the water.

 

Allen

[scaleface]

Texas rigged plastics but I tore a tendon in right bicep and may not be able to set the hook sufficiently, in that case a spinnerbait.

[Kyle S]

3/16 OZ Boss finesse flip jighead

weed guard cut down and thinned out

No skirt

ZOOM Z-Craw Jr. threaded straight on the hook

California 420 color

Tails dipped in chartreuse spike it about 1/4"-3/8"

 

Or....

a black buzz bait ?

one never knows

[Jar11591]

I have a feeling the Pop Max is going to reclaim its throne as top numbers bait for me. It’s been my best numbers bait 4 out of the last 6 years, and I think it’s gonna go for 5 out of 7. I’m feeling it. 

[BrianMDTX]

It’s 5” long,

And shaped like a stick

its known as the Senko,

If not, a Zoom Trick! 

[crypt]

most likely a worm ...... Fat Max ........

[A-Jay]

Megabass Jerkbait ~ Perhaps something in tattered perch  . . . 

A-Jay

[Bird]

Spinnerbait will produce the most fish, it always does.

[TnRiver46]

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I don't keep track, or fish any lure for any other reason than it's the best one for a given place and time, but a spinnerbait, a chatter, a jig, t-rigged plastic, and a popper have to be close. I catch a lot of fish on treble lures, particularly JBs and square bills too, but grass limits the times and places I can fish them in late spring through fall, so the overall numbers probably not as high. 

[scaleface]

54 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Megabass Jerkbait ~ Perhaps something in tattered perch  . . . 

A-Jay

Holy moly! Theres a thousand dollars worth of baits there . 

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Holy moly! Theres a thousand dollars worth of baits there . 

I was going to respone to this, but it just wouldn't matter.

A-Jay

[Mike L]

If history repeats itself…

This time of the year to about mid April a white craw or lizard sight fishing a bed. 
 

From then to about the end of September a June Bug Magnum Speed Worm. 
 

From then to the end of the year a standard sized Honey Candy Rage Cut R

 

 

 

 

Mike

[TheSwearingAngler]

I want for the answer to be whopper plopper, frog or popper because I’ve bought so many and love topwater so much. If I’m being honest though it’s a ZMan Ticklerz ned rigged, likely green pumpkin. Fish in my ponds absolutely destroy that bait, but not literally since I can catch 20 plus fish before I inevitably lose it.