Favorite Lures Of 2011

[Primus]

I spent a lot of time with swimbaits, these are a few baits that Ihad fun with....

3:16 Wake Jr.

Matt Lures Hard Bluegill

8" R.O.F. 12 Huddleston

[fxdwgkd]

White spinner with colorado and willow blade

heddon spook, black and silver

strike king #5 in sexy shad

[backwater4]

Swim jig

Hand poured frog

4" Berkley finesse worms

[deaknh03]

Fat ika smeared with Megastrike

baby brush hog

white colorado blade spinner

This coming season I have my Roboworms GoneFishin hooked me up with and a bunch of Ragetails. I'm gonna fish those 2 for a good part of the early year.

[JIGFISHERMAN.]

Virtually all of my fishing was in the creek in the back yard, that empties into the lake. My boat was a project that lasted all year.

So, everything I used was as natural and/or subtle as I had. Some 3-1/2" Stickbaits, rigged wacky, with no weight, pumpkin jig/chunk combo's, that was the bulk of my lures used.

Just heavy enough to carry down stream. Not sure what it's called, but the same way I've always fished for salmon in the Pierre Marquete. Cast up stream, current carries down stream. No contact repeat.

Of course there are targets through out, but you just have to cast up stream so the current carries into the target.

[drop-shot fool]

Homemade Mop Jig

Homemade football jig

KVD 1.5

CP series 1

[NCLifetimer]

Shallow crank bait(rapala 3/8oz black and white).

Blue culprit 7.5 inch worm.

3/8 oz brown/green jig.

[Senkoman12]

1. senkos(i tried to stray away from them this year but in tournaments i kept using them just to put fish in the boat)

2. 1/4oz grassmaster jig/1/4oz bps enticer brush jig

3.shakeyhead

[MuffinMan]

1. Zoom Super fluke Houdini shad

2. Culprit Ribbon-tail Red Shad

3.Brown and green SK bits bug jig 1/4 ounce with a Zoom baby brush hog trailer

[SausageFingers]

My top three producers were:

1. Blade Runner blue gill swim jig with a lime-purple passion pit boss

2. XCalibur XCS 200 in Oxbow

3. Manns Waker Elite in Matte Tiger

[Vinny Chase]

NorthStar Swim Jig

RI Skinny Dipper

Netbait Paca Craw

[Skeet22]

Lunker Lure Buzz Bait

RI Skinny Dipper

H2O squarebill and wake bait

Spro Frog

Baby brush hogs and speed craws

Gained confidence in swim jigs and drop shotting. Still have yet to catch a fish on a shaky head..

[Vinny Chase]

Gained confidence in swim jigs and drop shotting. Still have yet to catch a fish on a shaky head..

Skeet22,

I started really getting into shaky head fishing last year, and to be honest I really haven't caught much on it to speak of.

Like you said in another post, it is all about confidence and going into this year, I have the least confidence in fishing a worm on a shakey head.

[Skeet22]

yeah I try to gain confidence in new stuff while practicing or fun fishing and the shaky head has not been to kind. I gained a ton of confidence on a swim jig this year which is a nice change up from a spinnerbait when fishing clean water. The North Star swim jigs are killer with a zoom fat albert trailer..

[Vinny Chase]

I would agree that it doesn't get much better than a NorthStar swim jig. I have tried a grub trailer, but keep going back to a paca craw.

[SmokeRise1]

1. Rico popper (any color)

2. Rage Toad (pumpkin)

3. Rage Shad (white and sometime with the tail dipped in JJs Methyate)

[baluga]

1. Sammy 100

2. Lucky Craft FM 110 SP

3. 3" Big Hammer swimbait

[River Rat316]

Swim jig

flippin jig

and a hand injected beaver style bait

Those three accounted for over 80% of my fish. I didn't get a chance to fish much last year but this year I am teaching Vinny how to tie so he can sit in the shop and I can fish every day....lol

[flipin4bass]

Top Water

Frogs (Various makes)

LC Gunfish & Sammy

LC RC 3.5 Wake Bait (This was a killer!)

Cranks

LC BDS 2 thru 4

Risto Raps 7, 8, & 9

Excalibur Shad-R

A couple of old Heddon lures from the 50s

Jigs

Homemade

Soft Plastics

Manns Jelly Worm 9" & 12" (Landed my PB with this worm, 13.4 lbs)

Rage Tail Anaconda

Gene Larew Hoodaddy and Lizard

[Red]

In order of quantity of bass caught.

1. Bandit 200 Pearl/Chart back

2. Rage Rigged Rage Craw, various colors

3. Jig and Rage Craw, various colors

In order of quality bass caught

1. Buzzbait- biggest of the year, possible PB

2. Rage Rigged Rage Craw, green pumpkin

3. Jig and Rage Craw, PB&J or some sort of greenish color.

Over all the Bandit ruled this past year!!

Cliff

[slonezp]

I would agree that it doesn't get much better than a NorthStar swim jig. I have tried a grub trailer, but keep going back to a paca craw.

@Vinny Chase, I've been using Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer with great success on NS swimjigs. Only problem is they don't last long. Picked up some Keitech Swing Impact to try this year.

[flippin and pitchin]

Spinnerbait

Normans Deep Little N

Yamamoto Hula Grub

Sweet Beaver get an honorable mention

[bwell]

Northstar jigs brought in most of my fish this year.

[Vinny Chase]

Swim jig

flippin jig

and a hand injected beaver style bait

Those three accounted for over 80% of my fish. I didn't get a chance to fish much last year but this year I am teaching Vinny how to tie so he can sit in the shop and I can fish every day....lol

Isn't that why you had kids?

[Vinny Chase]

@Vinny Chase, I've been using Poorboys Kickin Darter as a trailer with great success on NS swimjigs. Only problem is they don't last long. Picked up some Keitech Swing Impact to try this year.

If I am fishing the flip and swim jig deep I like to put on a swimbait trailer, but I can't get myself to spend $8 for 5 swimbaits....I think I am also going to give in and just use them on tourny day.