your "go to" plastics

[bigtimfish]

Black,purple,green with flake variations. My go to plastics are. 10" worms, Brush hogs, 8" lizards

[bassin is addicting]

it's fun to read everyone's favorites...

the Bass sure have an appetite that is pretty varied!!  

sounds lie you can't go wrong... just walk into most any fishing dept, close your eyes and pick up 5 mor 6 bags and head out..  

but... here i go..

Yamamoto senko 5" pumpkin green/black flake

Yamamoto 5" senko black

Yamamoto double tail hula grub green pumpkin black flake

Zoom u-tail worm watermelon seed

Rage Anaconda 10" junebug

power worm 7" & 10" black

power worm 7" red shad

fluke white

gulp jerk shad baby bass

powerbait chigger craw green pumpkin

zoom chunk black/blue

sweet beaver sprayed grass

trick worm bubblegum

Rage toad watermelon red

zoom lizard black chart tail

brush hog watermelon red

*** stuff is just as good on all the above too IMO

have fun...

and after reading the answers..... the Bait Monkey has my keys and is headed to the car....  8-)

[central_fl_fishin]

7" curly tail, grape.

[TheHammer84]

Everything pretty much boils down to these two colors for me:

Green pumpkin

Black/blue

The baits:

Berkley Power Worm 7" and 10"

Berkley Chigger Craw

SK Coffee Tube

SK Perfect Rodent (I use this in Okeechobee Craw)

[I.rar]

Flukes!

the super fluke or super fluke jr. i almost always catch fish with them.

next would have to be swimming senko.

havnt had as much bites on any other plastics ive tried than these two.

[ab8aac]

my advice would be to check with local anglers as what works in me, NC, AL, fl, or TX; that color might not work in your area of Los banos, ca and you can spend a ton of money on colors that just don't work, I know from first hand experience, I have about 50 packages of worms that just don't work, then I have about 6 colors that work here every-time, go figure.

[roadwarrior]

Well, I'm not going to say I don't fish some other dolors,

but you only "need" a couple: Watermelon w/ black flakes,

green pumpkin, black w/ blue flakes and black w/ red flakes.

Lately I have been fishing mostly the new Rage Tail baits, but

for the last decade, these are my "go-to" plastics:

#1 6" GYCB Senko

#2 Fat Ika

#3 Micro Munch Tackle and Mizmo tubes

#4 GYCB Kreature

#5 Kut Tail Khuna

#6 GYCB Single Tail Grub

#7 Flappin' Hog (jig trailer)

#8 Gene Larew 7 1/2" Salty Ring Worm

#9 Roboworm 6" Shakin' Zipper Worm

#10 GYCB Fat Baby Craw (trailer for smaller presentations)

#11 Slug-Go

New Rage Tails

10" Anaconda

Shad

Smokin' Rooster

Lobster

8-)

[J Francho]

In no particular order:

4" PowerWorm

7" PowerWorm

10" PowerWorm

10" Anaconda

SpaceMonkey

RI 4.20 Sweet beaver

RI Skinny Dipper

Ugly Otter

4" Roboworm

6" Berkley Hand Pour

GYCB Shad Shape Worm

GYBC Cut Tail Worm

GYBC Senko

GYBC Fat Ika

Zoom Super Fluke

[Stasher1]

Lately I've been using my "travel tackle", which consists mainly of cheapo twirl-tail worms from Luck 'e' Strike and BPS in tequila sunrise, red/black core, pump/chart, watermelon/chart, black/pink and Northland Slurpies Ringworms in their "green sunfish" color.

I can't explain it, but I've never been more successful.

[Bankbeater]

Finesse worms

Senko or knockoff

Zoom Mag II worms

[TrippyJai]

1) 4-5" Senko - Blacke/Blue or Green Pumpkin T-Rigged

2) Baby Brush Bug - Green Pumpkin T-Rigged Weightless

3) Zoom Finesse Worm - Green Pumpkin Wacky Rigged

Yeah, Green Pumpkin rules here.

[D4u2s0t]

what this thread should tell people is that lure selection and color is not quite as important as you think it is.

[The_Natural]

In no particular order...

1. Gary Yamamoto 8" grub in Pumpkin (orange) with chartreuse tail (although the orange bleeds onto the tail making it solid bright orange).

2. Reaction Innovations Double Wide Beaver 5.20 in Big Texan

3. Bass Pro Shops Beaver Bug in Roadkill

Those are the ones I end up throwing 'more often' than the other plastics I throw, which are Charlie Brewer Sliders, Paca Craws/Toads, and Tubes.

Here is the GYCB 8" grub in Pumpkin with 'chartreuse' tail....(my spring time dynamite stick). I used this bait last spring to teach my wife how to set the hook....it always gets bit.  

[bigtimfish]

what this thread should tell people is that lure selection and color is not quite as important as you think it is.

Color I can agree with, but lure selection? IMO that is very important. If your fishing 30' of water and the fish are suspending at 15' to 19', are you going to throw a topwater or a 6' diving crank? Or are you going to throw a crank that will get down to where the fish are? :-?

[D4u2s0t]

not talking in terms of depth, that I agree with.  You want to get down to the depth the fish are at.  What I meant is that one crankbait will not be better than all the others, just like one soft plastic won't be better than the others.  What we consider to be the "best" is what we catch the most fish on, and what we catch the most fish on is no doubt what spends the most time in the water.  That's what I meant.

[Jeff C.]

Black & Blue

Watermelon Red

Net Bait craws on a jig

Flappin hog on jig

Zoom brush hog Carolina

Yum Dingers

[BassFishingMachine]

1. GYCB Fat Ika

2. GYCB Kut-Tail 5inch Worm

3. Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver

4. Zoom Baby Brush Hog

5. YUM Wooly Hawgtail

If your looking on opinions of colors, I find greenpumpkin, watermelon, watermelon red, black, black/blue, (GYCB baits only: cinnamon brown), and junebug to all be top notch colors.

[.ghoti.]

I been on a mission to trim down what I carry around, so all the plastics I carry I consider to be go-to baits.

GYCB:

Hula Grubs

Big Kahuna CutTail worms

Fat Ikas

Senkos, 4", 5" 6"

Swim Senkos

Berkley:

7" & 10" Power worms

3" & 4" Power craws

4" and 5" Power Hawgs

Shaky Worms

Tubes

Yum:

Big Show Paddle worms

Houdini Shads

Money Craws

Tubes

Rage Tail baits:

Space Monkeys

Lobsters

Anacondas

Craws

Shads

Gambler:

Bacon Rinds

Giggy Sticks

Paddle tail worms

Zoom:

Salty Super Flukes

Tubes

Trick worms

Finesse worms

Net Bait:

Paca toads

Paca craws

That's about it. I have a few odd packs of this that and the other thing I picked up to try, that haven't made it onto the go-to list.

Simple color selection;

something greenish

something brown/orangeish

blue or black/blue

red or red shad

[basspimple]

my #1 go to for the last few years has to be the ***. any dark color, wacky or texas has worked, period.

#2. 5" finesse worm made by open water called the huzzie. has a really small spade tail with awsome action on a shaky head. a no brainer and has also worked wonders.

#3. i have recently started using these, and wow, i dont know why i never used em before. the original gitzit. black for dark water, watermelon for clear. thow it out. if a fish is about, they usually slurp it up!

i usually use these three things until i find what they want to eat the most.

[Dave D]

10" Berkley Power Worm - any color as long as it's dark!

[Gatorbassman]

fluke  

[Mike D.]

5.5 strike king shim i stick watermelon       green pumpkin    

yum watermelon red flake  5 inch

rigged wacky car. tex.

yum craw fish with jig head   looks real