Your Top 3 - Summer 2011

[Fat-G]

So what are your top three best producing lures so far for the summer? Are you gettin' em on reaction baits or is it low and slow?

For me the bite has been in deeper water fishing plastics. In some of my ponds, "deep" is 2-3 feet, and others, up to 12! I have learned a lot about structure fishing this summer and have a much better feel for the bottom contour of my ponds.

My top three:

Rage Craw

Rage Baby Thumper

Rage Lobster

I have also done well with a Red Eye shad, again, fished deep.

[dhami013]

Jigs

Baby Brush hog

T-rigged worms.

Though lately I've gotten back into top water. I'm hooked on frogs.

[hmongkidBee]

here's my top 3:

spinnerbait

zoom super flukes

swimbaits

[Hooligan]

Northstar Jig and Rage Craw

Smokin' Rooster

Grass Pig

[TouchTooMuch]

Spro frog jr

Red Eye Shad

Spro Aruku Shad

[iceintheveins]

1. Spinnerbait

2. Skitterpop

3. Senko

[Bluebasser86]

1.Pitboss

2.Homemade jig

3.Cavitron

honorable mention goes to the baby brush hog

[Catt]

Rage Rig

A Rage Tail Lobster (Falcon Lake Craw) on a Keel Weighted Stroker™ Hook, ¼ oz 5/0

Ringworms from Ann’s tackle Redbug, 3/16 oz bullet weight, 4/0 straight shank hook

Terry Oldham’s jig 3/8 oz, Coon Tail with a Rage Tail Lobster (Falcon Lake Craw)

[Red]

Squarebill crank

Rage Craw rigged on 1/8oz Owner Beast, Dirty Craw or Green Pumpkin

GrandeBass Rattlesnake rigged on 1/8oz Owner Beast, Chart Pepper

[CrankinCarlos]

Zoom Fat Albert grub

Netbait Paca Chunk

Bomber model 4A

[ww2farmer]

Strike King 5xd

Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20

GYCB 5" Senko

[Goose52]

7.5" ribbontail worms

lipless cranks

AND.......no surprise.......5" single-tail grubs.

[Primus]

As usual for me deep diver cranks & RC/KVD cranks shallow

R.I. Sweet Beaver

Lately Xcite baits 10" Maximus straight tail worm on 1/2 oz Magnum Title shot fished as a shakey head, the bigger fish seem to like it, keeps the dinks away.

[Chris W]

Green Pumkin/Blue Jig

Black/Blue Jig

Clear Zara Spook

[MuffinMan]

Luhr-Jensen Nip-I-Didee

Baby Brush Hog (T-rigged on a Gamakatsu 3/0 EWG

Rapala original Floater 4" (fished with a splitshot)

[bassmaster200]

Spinnerbaits

Senkos

LiveTarget crankbaits

[Bigbarge50]

1) Booyha Squeeking Buzzbait

2) Northstar Jig with rage chunk trailer

3)- Senko

[quanjig]

1/2 oz longbill scrounger with disco violet superfluke

1/2 oz war eagle spinnerbait spot remover color

Lucky craft pointer 100 in ghost minnow

Hm: any Northstar jig in 1/2 oz - color tbd on site!

[SausageFingers]

Swim Jig with a paca chunk

Manns Waker Elite

Rage Craw (bama craw color)

[River Rat316]

#1: Swim jig... No big surprise, using either a rage, spaz or paca chunk, hollow belly's have been real good to me lately also

#2 4" Fighting Craw, this bait has surpised me, rigging it on a light keel weighted hook has picked up alot of fish for me this season.

#3 Jig, with either a rage, spaz or paca chunk. Color dependent on water conditions. 3/8 or 1/2 oz is my bread and butter around deep weedlines. Finally tried out the Alimony color jig last Friday and picked up 5 chunks that would have pushed 20lbs tournament bag out of a 300 acre lake

[herruberraschen]

1) KVD Scorcher 1/2 ounce

2) Caffeine Shad

3) KVD 1.5

[tholmes]

1. Bandit 200 series in Tennessee Shad.

1A. Rapala DT-10 in Shad.

2. 7" Ribbon-tail worm in Tequila Sunrise or Red Shad.

3. Jigs in either black/blue of green pumpkin with some sort of craw trailer.

Tom

[ChiCityBasser]

1) BPS Xps Egg Shallow running crank

2) Pro Max style topwater popper

3) Live Target shallow crawfish crank

[zachb34]

1.rapala dt 6

2.strike king ocho

3.zoom super fluke

[Jigfishn10]

Home built spinnerbait - New PB on it this spring

1/4 oz Bitsy bug jig - replaced the skirt to a watermelon candy and added a twin tail grub - Berkely Havoc The Deuce

Tubes - got them from Bilgerat, I'll have to find out what they are, but they've been really productive.