Your Best Lure So Far This Year....

[slonezp]

Buckeye Mop Jig in PB&J w/ Yum Chunk trailer

[RoLo]

Okay, but only because you asked: "Wave Worm Tiki-Snake - white

In spite of its name, it's what I would describe as a sickle-tail grub

(Grubs are grossly overlooked by bassers, and so is the color white...Shhhh)

Roger

[SausageFingers]

Strike King tour grade swim jig in blue gill with a watermelon candy paca chunk.

Rage Tail baby craw in bama craw.

[.ghoti.]

tube

[Reel_Kaotic]

SK swim jig (black/blue) and Rage Chunk (black/blue)

SK Redeye Shad Bluegill 1/2oz

[ChiCityBasser]

So far for me this year it has been the Live Target Crawfish crank C52SB o-1' in Mustard/Brown run over the tops of weeds or ripping it off the weeds. Also over very shallow flats. My other successful lure has been the BPS Egg in Texax Shad.

[Jigfishn10]

Wounded Shad Spook Jr. for quantity

Spinnerbait & Jigs w/twin tail grubs for quality

[paul8811]

So far caught alot on black buzzbaits and kvd finesse worms (green pumpkin) wacky rigged.

[RoLo]

I've heard of people having a lot of success with grubs, how do you rig them? Just with a jig head?

Yes

Owner 1/4 oz Type-Z Bullet Head

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The grub can be fished from the surface to the bottom.

A bullet-head jig looks no different than a Texas-rigged plastic, but pegging is never necessary

Roger

[brushhoggin]

This year has been just absolutely windy as hell and my top producing lure has been a spinnerbait with the skirt taken off and replaced with a zoom tab-tail. if the wind weren't so ridiculous i guarantee my top lure would have been a lizard or something

[Gangley]

Rattle Trap (Chrome Blue Back)

Strike King Rodent and Big Bite Baits Yo-Mamma

ZOOM Ol' Monster

[SausageFingers]

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I love these! They work great for a number of baits.

The only issue I've had is the hook breaking at the bend near the top. I blame myself though. Drag was set too tight on light line and the fish made a run at the boat. I am surprised that the line didnt break before the hook though.

[RoLo]

I love these! They work great for a number of baits.

The only issue I've had is the hook breaking at the bend near the top. I blame myself though. Drag was set too tight on light line and the fish made a run at the boat. I am surprised that the line didnt break before the hook though.

You’re correct.

I use 30-lb braid and have broken the shank on more than one Owner hook.

A hook under great pressure has two options, it will "bend" or it will "break".

CAVEAT> The original Owner bullet head uses fine-wire which is rubbery and prone to straightening.

The Owner Type-Z bullet head uses standard-wire and the shank is "forged".

Swaging crystallizes the steel, what we toolmakers call 'work hardening', which is good & bad.

Owner is quality, but getting the hardness of a hook just right is like walking a tightrope.

In most cases though, the hook will have landed many bass before the Rockwell goes over the top.

Roger

[SAC2]

7 inch zellamander in green pumpkiny red flake type of color texas rigged 1/4 bullet and 2/0 trokar EWG.

[rat-l-trapper]

Most of my fish have been caught on a 1/2 oz firetiger booyah spinnerbait with the stock willowleaf blade replaced with a #5 silver willowleaf.

[Fishing N Boots]

The majority of my fish have been caught using Bomber Flat A Crank Bait Shad Color.

I also have been producing a lot of fish, yet smaller, with bass assassins.

[JoePhish]

I fish for bass all year long. What works best for me constantly changes as the seasons progress.

In the cold winter months I was nailing them on little black beavers rigged Texas w/ a bead.

Pre-spawn; I was getting hit on Chatter Frogs w/ a Swimsenko trailer.

Spawn; couldn't really sight fish beds because they were deeper this year due to low water levels. Had success using weightless, t-rigged or keel-weighted Skinny Dippers in Money Shot and White Trash. I often colored them with Spike-It markers.

Also caught a lot of fish on a silver Shad Rap 08.

Post Spawn (now); Weightless, t-rigged or keel-weighted Swimsenko in black or watermelon. T-rigged or keel-weighted Anacondas have been producing for me as well.

Oddest part of this all is that I haven't been fishing jigs that much, something that has produced well for me over the last few years. The year's not nearly over yet though.

[Avalonjohn44]

Cheepo Lews Rattle Trap, chrome/blue back.

2nd would be the Dean Rojas Fighting Frog, Green Pumpkin.

[pitchin fool]

Brush beavers and kvd xd5....BOOM!!!!

[Scorcher214]

Jackall flickshake jig w/ a 5.8" jackall flickshake worm.

[fishingkidPA]

trickworm (red shad)

rage baby craw (okochobee)

baby brush hog (watermelon candy)

[1nstinct]

#1 booyah black and blue jig w/ rage craw

#2 Zoom baby bush hog

[Vinny Chase]

NorthStar Swim Jig

Zoom Lizard

Perch Shad Rap

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Azuma crankbaits. Size 2 3/8 inches. Weight 1/4oz. Colors: Fire Tiger, Natural Bass, Blue Sunshine, and Murder Black.

[chromedog]

No particular order:

3/4 oz red eye shad

3/8 scrounger w/ 3.5 lake fork magic shad

100 and 78 lucky craft pointer

5" senco