If you were limited to five soft plastic baits, what would you choose?

[DougHall_NY]

If you were limited to five soft plastic baits to fish for smallmouth and largemouth bass year-round, what five would you choose?

 

I would choose:

 

Yamamoto 5" Senko

Strike King Caffeine Shad

Strike King Rage Tail Menace

Strike King Rage Tail Space Monkey 

Strike King Rage Tail Craw

 

[Cbump]

Senko

10” power worm 

Fluke

rage bug

uv speed craw

[Dwight Hottle]

Frog

Worm

Fluke

Senko

Tube

[r83srock]

For both species I would choose:

 

5” stick worm

super fluke

4” beaver

3.5” tube

5” grub

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Straight tail Roboworms

8" Magnum Zoom Lizards

Live Magic Shad

Damaki Armor Shad

Scottsboro Tackle swimbaits

[Jar11591]

Rage Structuge Bug 

YCB Senko

Netbait Paca Craw

Rage Craw

Rage Swimmer 

[Drawdown]

With 100% certainty:

 

Zoom UV Speed Craw

Zoom Trick Worm

3.3” Keitech-style Swimbait (any brand)

———

Less than 100% certain:

Berkley Pit Boss

Zoom Fluke Jr.

———

May supplant one of the above by year’s end:

 

Zoom Z-Drop

Zoom Baby Brush Hog
 

 

[MN Fisher]

Berkley Pit Boss

Zoom Trick Worm

Zoom Magnum UV Speed Worm

Zoom Super Fluke

Z-Man TRD CrawZ

[SpinLight]

3" Easy Shiner

2.8" Fat Swing Impact

4.5 RoboWorm

5" Senko

TRD

[Bird]

Hmmm. Lol 

Great question ❓

Fluke

Speed craw

Senko

Keitech easy shiner

Robo worm.

 

But I like Brush hogs and Elaztech ?

 

 

 

 

[bowhunter63]

Trick Worm 

Zoom fluke 

Zoom z craw

Brush Craw 

Senko 

[JediAmoeba]

Ragecraw

Ragebug in the large size

Yamamoto 6" senko

Gajo Spirit Shad

Berkley Gillies - small ones

 

[king fisher]

1-  Zoom trick worm, and Magnum trick worm (  Claiming anglers prerogative, I combined the two in order to get 6 on the list.)

2- Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper

3-Yamamoto 7 inch Senko

4- Strike King Magnum Rage bug

5- Zoom Ole Monster

 

[DitchPanda]

5in Senko 

Trick worm 

Zoom fluke

Finesse TRD 

Menace grub

 

[Log Catcher]

Zoom baby Brush Hog

Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Craw

Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Worm

Zoom Fat Albert Grub

Zoom Centipede

[looking45]

5” paddle tail swim bait

senko

6” spade tail worm

Ned bait

fluke

no specific manufacturer as I make my own baits

 

 

 

[Mastercaster]

Zoom baby brush hog

Zoom 8" Lizard

Strike King 3.5" coffee tubes

Culprit 7.5" original worm - red shad

Yamamoto 5" wacky worm

[rboat]

5 inch senko

3.3 keitech fat impact

zoom super fluke

gambler 6 inch burner worm

gambler EZ swimmer

[Glenn]

Here's mine:

 

[Fishin Dad]

5” stick worm

Netbait Paca Slim

3.5” swimbait

Netbait T-Mac

Berkley Pit Boss

[BrianMDTX]

5” Senko

Mann’s Jelly Worm

Zoom Trick

Neko Macho

X-Zone Adrenaline Craw

[Jeff Zurawski]

Zman HulaStickz

Missile Baits Shockwave

Christie Craw or Yamamoto twin tail grub

Big Bite Baits Craw worm

Fluke

[TOXIC]

5” Senko/4” Senko

Speed Senko

DShad

Shad Shape Worm

Paddle tail Zako

[Mobasser]

1. Zoom Trick Worm.              2. Zoom Finesse Worm.         3.Culprit 7.5" Worm.                 4. Mr. Twister Phenom Worm.                                          5. Zoom Critter Craw.                Honorable mention: Charlie Brewers Slider Worm.

[Chilidog]

5" Yamamoto Senko

5" Berkley Grass Pig

Rage Craw

Berkley Tube

Yamamoto Fat Ika