What lure has brought you the best luck over all other tackle?

[stoocher]

Post the lure that you pick over the others and why.

[roadwarrior]

Welcome aboard!

Spend some time looking around the site...

Here are a few threads to get you started:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1143177139

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1182371999

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1199915688

8-)

[frogtog]

Welcome to BR and I would have to say the Rattle Trap.

[The Rooster]

I'm learning to fish a variety of baits and getting a little better with some of them so this should be no reflection on any of them that I DON'T mention...........but my number one fish producer, most of which are 12 to 14 inch bass, is a Worden's Roostertail.

People constantly tell me this is not a bass bait, and one tackle shop around here told me it's a trout bait exclusively and wouldn't even order them when I asked about them.....said they were out of season.

They're dead wrong. Period.

Tie one on in the 1/8 or 1/6 ounce size, in any kind of white color especially, and you'll see what I mean. I don't go fishing without them and I take over 100 of them with me when I go.  I never buy them in less than quantities of 3 for any color or size and I almost never NOT have a rod with one tied on, sometimes more than one rod with different colors or sizes.  

Don't get me wrong, I still fish the cranks and buzz's and T-rigs but when they don't work, it's a Rooster, and when THEY don't work.....then I get worried......but I still fish on.....

[CRFisher]

Mepps spinners, pretty much what Rooster says, not a lot of press on inline spinners, but do quite well.  

[bigfruits]

i always have a 1/4 jig and small craw trailer tied on to one of my rods

best producer of large and smallmouth bass for me yr round (i dont fish in the winter or middle of summer however). although i have to admit, i dont give senkos as much "showtime". they bore me a bit but theyre pretty dependable.

[Grey Wolf]

WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crank bait

What's your favorite ?

[Raul]

I don 't fish by "luck", my best producer is that old Rapala Shad Rap SR7SD I 've fished with for more than 20 years, don 't ask me what 's so special about it, it 's all beat up and it still catches fish.

[snapper G]

Welcome to BR!

I've gotta say they my favorite bait it a Stanley Floating Ribbit frog, I love at top water bass bite!! The reason I like the floating models is because the frogs aren't to heavy. So what I do to get a longer cast is add a 5/0 weighted hook. The reason i use the weighted hooks with the floater, is so i can cast it far and the bait will still the bouncy so that I can reel it with out having to "burn" the bait to get it to stay on the top, but i can still let it sink under the water a few inches after i come of a weed mat.

(still have not used a hollow body frog)

[J Francho]

My sonar unit.

[Catt]

Texas Rigged Plastic & the guy in the front of that boat  

[bilgerat]

Good old reliable rubber worm. Also hard to beat the already mentioned inline spinners ( I personally like Panther Martin)

Inline spinners are killers for ALL species. Just be sure to attatch a ball bearing swivel to them. This will just about eliminate line twist.

[grimlin]

Mepps spinners, pretty much what Rooster says, not a lot of press on inline spinners, but do quite well.

X2... i started on a inline spinner...still use them to this day.They flat out catch just about anything and everything.

[Jig Man]

Jigs by far and away.  That is why I carry hundreds of jigs in 8 different sizes and many color patterns in 5 different materials.  I hardly ever fish without at least 4 or 5 jigs tied on.

[FD.]

My biggest producer in the 2-4 lb range is a Gambler Cane Toad rigged on a Zoom frog hook using 65 lb Power Pro braid.  Over 100 fish in the last year.

[Wayne P.]

I catch the most and the largest with a wacky rigged finesse worm. There is no luck involved, its establishing a pattern and using the presentation that the bass respond to.

[Pigsticker]

My biggest producer in the 2-4 lb range is a Gambler Cane Toad rigged on a Zoom frog hook using 65 lb Power Pro braid. Over 100 fish in the last year.

Hey thats my best producing frog . 100 fish hmmmm.... I should move down there ;D

My best producing bait is a gambler 10 inch ribbontail worm in junebug

rigged weigthless.

[SJex]

Zoom Finesse Worms and Yamamoto Fat Ikas.

[guitarkid]

weightless and weedless Trick worms. great baits.

                   -tumnus

[fishinfiend]

worms

[BassFishingMachine]

I hate to be a buzz kill, but I don't really have a "single" lure I choose over the others. For me choosing a bait is detemined by wind conditions, water clarity, season, water temperature, forage, cover, etc. I have yet to find a bait that catches the most fish out of all my lures under any condition, if I did I wouldn't be bothered buying so many baits.

Although I love throwing jigs. But they work best for me only in a few conditions. There is always a right tool/tools(bait) for the job, there is no such thing as a single best tool that will work for every job, and if there is I haven't found it .

[Certified Public Angler]

Wave worm watermelon red flake senko.

[roadwarrior]

#1  GYCB Senko

#2  GYCB Fat Ika

8-)

[avid]

I can't pick just one.  So, like RW I'll give you my top two.

1. Senko

2. ratltrap.

These two baits are always tied on, always thrown, and usually catch bass.  My

3. would be a crankbait, if on my home lake a wiggle wart.  when somewhere else a bomber or rapala often work better.  Why?  I dunno but i have a theory... good idea for a new post.

good luck.

[Chad.]

Definatly a some sort of lipless crank, anyone usually produces a fish or two when nothing else works.