First thing you throw???

[TLBassin]

What is the first thing that you throw when you get out on the lake and start fishing...............

For me its a C-rig for sure!!!

[galv]

texas rig plastic worm

[Spencer W]

I'd say it depends on what time of day, i like starting out with a buzzbait/topwaters in the mornings.

[RoLo]

The first lure I throw would depend on water temperature, time-of-day, wind conditions,

water color, what my wife is fishing, the cover at hand and so on. I rarely know beforehand

Roger

[KYbass1276]

The first lure I throw would depend on water temperature, time-of-day, wind conditions,

water color, what my wife is fishing, the cover at hand and so on. I rarely know beforehand

Roger

Same here

[playmaker47]

For me it's usually a 3/8 oz Spinnerbait. The only other thing is usually pitching jigs or soft plastics.

[Matt Fly]

My partner out of the boat for being too loud on a still, beautiful morning.   LOL

This time of the year, morning start.     Buzz bait or Yellow Magic

Hookem

Matt

[Guest Feel_The_Steel]

In windy conditions a spinner bait, otherwise a jig.  

[alhuff]

i would have to say either a spinnerbait or a weightless "T" rigged lizard or worm.

Alfred

[senile1]

The first lure I throw would depend on water temperature, time-of-day, wind conditions,

water color, what my wife is fishing, the cover at hand and so on. I rarely know beforehand

Roger

What Roger said.

[Guest avid]

for me the big factor is wind.

If it's pretty calm i'll generally start with a jig or tube

If it's windy, which is often the case on the treasure coast, then it's the chatterbait or ratltrap.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

#9 Origianal Floating Rapala Silver or 6" Jelly worm Grape t-rigged

[senile1]

for me the big factor is wind.

If it's pretty calm i'll generally start with a jig or tube

If it's windy, which is often the case on the treasure coast, then it's the chatterbait or ratltrap.

Avid, I thought you would throw a Senko?

[Zebco202]

Depends on a lot of factors but just being general here, if it's early I'll go top water and will usually have all of the following tied on at some point:

Spook (or spook jr)

buzz bait

hula popper

pop-r

Poppin Image

Spittin Image

If it's the afternoon's I probably lean towards either a spinnerbait, crank bait, super fluke or senko.  At lot of it depends on where the fish (deep, shallow etc...), the structure (rocks, wood etc...) and weather and water conditions.

[ww2farmer]

As others have said....all depends on alot of different things, time of year,time of day water temp, what cover/structure the bass are holding on,what the bass are or have been know to be feeding on, current weather conditions, prior weather conditions, forthcoming weather conditions.............and the list goes on and on. No 2 bodys of water are the same, and some times things are totaly different on the same lake. Right now on one of my area lakes the bass on the north end are on beds, and in post spawn, the middle of the lake is a mixed bag, pre, bedding, and post spawn, the south end is still mainly pre spawn with a few early bedders.

[Guest avid]

for me the big factor is wind.

If it's pretty calm i'll generally start with a jig or tube

If it's windy, which is often the case on the treasure coast, then it's the chatterbait or ratltrap.

Avid, I thought you would throw a Senko?

Nope, not at first.  The Senko has pretty much become my bait of last resort.  I got bored with it after a while and rarely throw it much anymore.  But if things are slow and I feel the need to catch one, well then LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS    GET READY TO RUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMBLE

IT"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SENKO TIME!!!!!!!!!  ;D ;D ;D

[George Welcome]

April - September

3 rods rigged - Chug Bug - Rattle trap -  weightless Senko: on the deck - spinner bait & C-rig in the box

October - March - Rattle trap - C-rigged Senko - spinner bait: on the deck - Chug Bug and weightless Senko in the box

First cast is always what the last one was caught on yesterday.

[KillerTomato]

floating rapala or jitterbug

[Lightninrod]

Lately, it's been a pitched Jig X or a Chatterbait.

[Cephkiller]

I always try to see if the topwater bite is happening before I move on to something else.  Any time.  Any conditions.  It's just so much fun.  Wheeeeeeee!

[Whopper-Stopper]

It depends on what the water is like but I usually prefer to use Black spinnerbait/buzzbait in early mornings. Then switch to soft plastics around 9:00. If that don't work I'll pull out the magic rattle trap.

[mudcatwilly]

Early morning, buzzbait or top water.  Then its the spinner then it's the senko.  If all else fails, drop shot witha berkeley gulp worm

[flechero]

With all of the superstitious fisherman here, I would have bet someone would have said...

"The first thing I throw - is a quarter."  Maybe I was the only one that used to do that.  

[Rattlinrogue]

If it's early in the morning,I always fish a topwater lure for the first couple of hours.If I start up in the day,I usually start off with a spinnerbait.When conditions have the fish locked close to cover,I love to start and finish pitching and flipping tubes and jigs.

[DDbasser]

I carry 9 rods with me on the boat, I start with half of them rigged for a horizontal presentation: (2) crankbait, spinnerbait, topwater.

The  other half rigged for vertical presentation: jig, (2) t-rig, c-rig, weightless senko or fluke.

When I get to the lake the first thing I do after launching the boat and deciding on where to start is check the surface temp.

If theres little or no wind and the surface temps are above 55 degree's I'll usually start with some sort of topwater. If it's really windy then I 'll usually start with a shallow crankbait, spinnerbait or buzzbait.

If the water temp is below 55 degree's then I will usually start with a suspending jerkbait.

If the water temps are in the high 80's or higher then I usually start deep with a jig or a c-rig.