Ya'lls go to baits?

[Olebiker]

I have more confidence in a Senko than anything else, but it isn't my favorite bait to fish.

If I have my druthers, and the bass are cooperating, I'll throw a white spinnerbait or a lipless crankbait like a RatLTrap.

I almost always have a rod rigged with a Texas rigged Gitem Big Flapper worm.

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early spring spinnerbait

late spring Mr. Lizard!

[JigNBig]

Fat Ika/Senko

Football Jig

Shakey Head

Spook Jr.

[D.Cox]

When it's tough- a Jig or a finess worm!

[Joel W]

Go to baits:

Spring it's a Jerkbait

Spawn it's a 4 or 5 inch stickbait

Summer it's a wt'd plastic or jig

Fall it's a jig

late winter it's a jig or spoon

[Madhouse27]

Case Plastics Jack's Worm, Zoom Fat Albert Grub

[Rob.Atl]

Probly a rat l trap in chrome or texas rigged black trick worm in some of my secret sent  

[Tpayneful]

I used to have a go to lure years ago and have been thinking about this all Winter.  I have learned so many techiques and have confidence in so many things I have gotten away from go to baits.  Over the last 15 years I have gone through these go to baits.  Here is the evolution:

Rapala Crippled Minnow (fished as a jerkbait)

4" black power worm

1/2oz tandem spinnerbait

Senko

Baby Brush Hog

Jig

Horny Toad / Ribbit

Super Fluke

Bandit Footloose

So far this year the Mattlures Baby Bass and *** *** have caught fish for me.

I only have 6 baitcasting combos and 3 spinning combos so I only have a few options to tie up for each trip ;D

This spring I will probably have 5 rods rigged up with the following:

Hard Jerkbait

***

Jig

Bandit Footloose

Swimbait

One other thing that I will mention is.......switch to whatever your partner is using to catch all of the fish!

[MALTESE FALCON]

It used to always be a crankbait, but like Tpayneful, I've become confident with so many different baits there really isn't just one.

Falcon

[Bassn Blvd]

I use which ever one works the best during that time.

[treble_hook_smile]

I try to stick to what the conditions are calling for. But these baits will most likely be at the end of my lines:

Spring - prespawn-lipless crankbait, jig, and crawfish pattern shallow

           crank, basstrix

         - spawn - tube, stick worm, shallow bluegill crank

         - post spawn - lipless crank, senko, jig

Summer - Big worm, Jig, Spoon, frog, deep crank

Fall - cranks of all kinds

Go to, or confidence baits, are 10" worms and cranks.

[CWB]

1.Brush Hog, Wolly Hawgtail, Hoo Daddy

2.Tiki Stick

3.Tube

4.Frog,Buzzbait (Warmer weather)

5.Red Eye Shad.

[bronzeback01]

pearch colored suspending rapala.

[mibassman]

5" Yamamato Double Tail Hula Grubs in either blue pearl/silver flake or blue pearl/black flake usually work for me up in michigan, also tubes or 4" gulp minnow grubs fluorescent orange or green pumpkin on a jig head

[Daiwa]

chatterbait!!!!!

[TruflShufl]

spinnerbait or senko

but there's nothing I love more than fishing a topwater popper if the conditions permit it 8-)

[Castamasta]

my go to used to be a spinnerbait, but my friends and i have all of the sudden been catchin some hawgs on jigs so now im gonna have to say a black and blue football head jig with black and blue berkley craw trailer

[TrickyVT1887]

The one that catches the most fish ;D

[BirdNestBen]

Helicopter Luer

No way.... Texas rig-Powerworm #1

and Watermelon Senko's bout all I fish... and zoom fluke....

[Guest muddy]

Topwater; Jitterbug 5/8 oz. Black

Minnow Lures: Original Floating or Jointed #11 in Silver

Cranks; Rapala Dt's or Storm Big Bass: Darker Crawfish colors or Blue gill

Plastics: 5inch ***: Dark Greens T Rigged

            4 inch: Wacky Rigged

            7.5 inch *** Ribbon Tail worms, t rigged

Jigs; A couple of various heads with either a *** Brush Bug or Beaver Craw

[Tokyo Tony]

Jigs, jerkbaits (hard and soft), weightless plastic (senko or kreature), and walk-the-dog topwaters (zaras and sammy's). For nightifishing, it's all about the black/blue chatterbait.

I want to do a lot more rattle trapping and shakey heading this year, hopefully those two baits will be on my list by next spring, but I just don't use them enough to have confidence in them right now.

[Nicky Greece]

 Shad-Rap DT-10, all the time...

[Zel]

I use a variety of lures with confidence. When I think of a goto bait, it's the one I throw when fishing is tough, and most other lures won't work. Mine is a Berkley 4" Power Finesse Worm Hand Pour (Watermelon Magic Red Glitter), usually on a 1/8 ounce Slider Spider Jig. Also works great texas rigged, split shot rigged, or when drop shotting.

[Hawghead]

Watermelon/Chart zoom lizard.  Crawdad pattern cranks bomber model A, Fat A, Wiggle Wart.  

[guitarkid]

Trickworms, and senkos. I know it is two but one is never enough right?

                 -searoach