Most bass in 2023: Which lure?

[Mobasser]

Mine for the entire season will be a t rig plastic worm. It's my #1. Various models. But, I'll include plastic craws, tubes, and topwaters when that happens.

[KSanford33]

Probably one of @Siebert Outdoors swim jigs. I love them to cover water, then once I'm on something, I can slow down with it. 

 

Now that I've learned the versatility of a jig, it's always tied on.

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Megabass Jerkbait ~ Perhaps something in tattered perch  . . . 

A-Jay

Locked n loaded. Love to see it, leads to great brown bass footage 

[softwateronly]

Definitely a jig.  I think a 3/8oz swim jig w/ a 3-4.75" paddle tail will pull in the most fish for me over the course of the year.  It's a bite on my lake that works from ice out to ice in, fast/slow shallow/deep and day/night.

 

scott

[Team9nine]

Easy - Some variation of a Ned rig and Z-man plastic. Been a contender, if not at the top, for about a dozen years now ? 

[KSanford33]

3 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Easy - Some variation of a Ned rig and Z-man plastic. Been a contender, if not at the top, for about a dozen years now ? 

This may not catch me the most, but it has saved many a trip for me.

[uglyasheck]

Wacky Wacky Wacky 

[CM-fisher]

Swim jig or casting jig for sure, followed by TX rigged senko and a zoom finesse worm on a shakey head.

[DitchPanda]

It will likely be a horse race between Ned rig and rebel pop r

[Way north bass guy]

For smallmouth, I’d say it’ll likely be a Maxscent Flatworm on a drop shot. I catch quite a few fish over the year on them, along with some larger ones. Largemouth will likely be on a frog, probably because I throw one a ton for them cause it’s just so darn fun!

[Chowderhead]

It’s been a while and I will no doubt be rusty, but my guess is that it will likely be a close race between a Boo-Yah Pond Magic spinnerbait and the Ned Rig. 

[PressuredFishing]

Soft plastics

[Log Catcher]

Either a Baby Brush Hog or Z Craw Jr.

[NorthernBasser]

This is tough. Swim Jig most likely. Followed by a t-rigged Pit Boss or Jackall Archelon. 

[Munkin]

19 hours ago, PhishLI said:

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.

 

 

 

 

Just ordered two of these to try this year. Plan on fishing a jetboat river trail this year all shallow water.

 

Allen

[padon]

wacky senko because i absolutely crush them on it in spring on the lakes and the river smallies eat them all summer.

[Bankbeater]

Either a shallow running crankbait or a 6" plastic worm.

[Peddiesake]

1/2 oz. Lewis Trap in diamond dust 

[Wprich]

Sure it will be a 5 inch wacky green pumpkin magic Senko or a Pearl Ghost mini max chatterbait.  Keep those two rigged and if I can't get a bite with anything else I'm going to cruise the banks and chuck those 2.

 

[Catt]

It's the second week of February!

 

If I know the answer to this I would play Powerball!

[Dwight Hottle]

23 hours ago, scaleface said:

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

I counted about $1750!

Back to the original question. It's a jerk bait with 2nd place going to a chatterbait. 

[T-Billy]

Chatterbait most likely. Green punkin. At night for the most part.

[TnRiver46]

33 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Chatterbait most likely. Green punkin. At night for the most part.

Nah you’ll get it with that homemade soft plastic beaver bait 

[gim]

I feel like this is a trick question @ol'crickety.  Many of us here have our tendencies on which lure or lures we prefer to fish, and how to fish them, so we do it more often.  Naturally, simple math says if you are throwing a specific lure more often, you are very likely to catch more fish with it.

 

Examples:

you - whopper plopper

A Jay - jerkbait

T billy - chatterbait

lrgemouth shad - spinnerbait

tnriver46 - purple worms

team9nine - zman elaztech

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, Dwight Hottle said:

I counted about $1750!

 

That's last years pic, meaning before the re-stock and the bait monkey influence.

And don't forget to factor in all the after market hardware & treble hooks on every bait.

When $20 bills start catch big brown bass, I'll use those instead.

Until then, I'll keep trading them in.

A-Jay