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i don't know if this has already been asked...but what's your favorite lure and/or bait (live or fake)?
i've only used live bait and i'd have to say shiners really do it for me...well of course, live anything will do haha.
i have used some hard/soft lures before, crankbait's gotten me nothing, but i started using senkos like a week ago. They've gotten me nibs, but i'm guessing that the worms too big so i haven't caught anything with them yet. and i just ordered some jigs and buzzbaits from overstockbait.com (everyone should go there, they have some cheap stuff). So I'm hopin to try those soon.
So what's your favorite lure/bait?
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For me there are a few. No live bait allowed here in Idaho. I like Lucky Craft rattletraps, Zoom watermelon flukes, Zoom horny toad, midnite blue tube baits and my favorite football head jigs with yamamoto twin tails.
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I like using basically any texas rigged worm. When that doesn't work i'll switch to a white spinner bait, usually a strike king. Wacky rigging a black worm is another one of my favorites.
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My favorite is a T-rigged Culprit worm. I also like using finese worms on a C-rig. Then I will switch to some cranks.
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I like (in no particular order) Texas or Carolina rigged plastic worms, spinnerbaits (in black, white or chartreuse), crankbaits in shad, craw and firetiger patterns, top water baits (Jitterbug, Zara Spook, Hula Popper) and jigs in blue/black, brown/orange w/a palstic frog or craw for a trailer.
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So many baits to choose from! I have my favorites and I have my old reliable baits. My favorite bait has got to be a topwater, a green/yellow frog pattern popper. My baits that I use to catch fish consistently are 5" watermelon and gr. pumpkin trick sticks, green pumpkin/copper flake spider grubs, and Gulp minnows on a drop shot if I feel lazy.
I also like tubes, 5" worms and black/blue jigs with a contrasting trailer.
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Hands down the culprit 7.5inch red shad worm has landed me more bass than any other bass bait
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I agree, i dont know what name brand red-shad me and my bud were using but ive got tones of hits(never caught a bass [mad]),but my bud has pulled in several nice bass using 7" red-shad worms.
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where can i buy red shad worms?
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You can buy them at wal-mart/basspro shop/ cabela's or a baitshop =). They are just artificial worms color: Red-shad, about 7-7/half inch is big enough for creeks/rivers.
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My lures are Mepps Minnow and other minnow lures. Also I like Frog lures, super frog and Heddon Torpedo and Lazy Ike and bass Oreno.
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Senko worm and IKAs are probably my favorite, usually my go to bait. Roboworm is my favorite as far as dropshottng. I've got many, just depends on what type fishing I'm doing. There is 1 bait that I started using for the first time this summer and that is the Rage Toad, I absolutely fell in love with this lure. When it comes to bay or kelp bed fishing, I like the MC hammer swimbaits.
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to me fishing livebait is like havin my grandma slapped
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Its tough to beat a good spinnerbait bite. War Eagle, 3/8 oz in Mouse color to imitate pretty much any irridescent/white baitfish.
If I had to pick just one bait to throw anywhere, it would obviously be a Senko, though.
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I have always relyed on a worm and hook with a bobber. But if that doesnt work i use a spinnerbait or a buzzbait.
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My favorite is whatever works that day. It all works I suppose, and guys swear by whatever. But some "standbys" don't work for me. Until this past summer I could count the number of bass off a spinnerbait on one hand. Try, try, try again, but spinnerbaits just didn't work for me. Now, they're a main weapon, with one tied onto the four rods I use when out. That leaves the senko as the lone favorite that's unproductive for me. Well, come to think of it, I've caught only one off a drop shot. Go figure.
My go-to presentation is a T-rig double-tail hula grub that resembles a crawdad. Works all year, at least once every time out. My fishfinder isn't very detailed so I use the lure to explore the bottom for fish-holding features. And while learning, I get a couple of extra bites.
My all-time favorite, though, is a suspending crank. I'll try one every time out just for the fun of it. Don't catch much until fall, though.
For pure excitement I love poppers at sunup. This past spring and summer I went to school (so to speak) on some lunkers beside a weed bed that were hooked on surface lures, especially an ugly triple-jointed shallow-diver out of Hong Kong. Worked wonders. I didn't really like the lure, and it was hard to work properly, but I won't argue with the results.
Oh, and I refuse to use live bait except on the bank with my wife. As a old wader, I used to get Redfish off a double-drop bottom rig of a mullet and a shrinp. And I love to free-line live shrimp just to feel it freak before getting chomped. The only time I consider using live bait for bass is to free-line a perch, using a slip sinker to hold the bait near the bottom but letting it have some line to move around. Like the shrimp, the perch will let you know when something about to bite so you can get ready. But that presentation takes time, forcing you to sit there and do nothing. I'd rather be thinking, moving and casting.
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thats a hard question to answer,
I have so many favorites, Mostly because I have become proficient with a number of lures, cranks, and spinners along with live baits...
but if I had to pick one thing to be a favorite, Because I love fishing for blue gill more than anything else, I would have to choose
Live Crickets on a Number six Eagle Claw hook. with or with out a bobber, on a bait casting or spin casting rod and even on a fly rod.
store bought brown crickets are great, but if you can catch a local black cricket they are deadly on everything from gills to crappie perch bass and trout......
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Well Im not a live bait fisherman . And i must say the 5" senko is one of my favorite baits. And ill add the suspending jerkbait also . Over the past few years I have caught more bass on a senko than any other bait I have ever used........barnun
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This is one of those subjects that i really need to think about. With all the crap i have in my tackle box its really hard to choose just 1 lure! It seems like every year i find a different lure that seems to work really well for me, and then the next year not so much. But when it really comes down to it and push comes to shove, and if God came down and said you are only allowed one lure to fish with for the rest of your life i would probably pick a rapala X-Rap. I catch so may fish on that lure it is unbelievable. Any time of the they year i can catch fish on that lure. They say it only works in the early spring and late fall but im living proof that it works all year round. Not as well in the summer but if i run out of options i will tie on of them on and i will end up getting one or to fish before i go home.
Now if i had to pick on soft plastic i would say the Zoom super fluke! that thing is dynamite for bass and pike alike. pair them with a 1/8oz weighted shank wide gap hook by Owner you got yourself a great fish catching machine.
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3/4 Luhr Jensen Hot Lips Express in Green Talapia for those southern lakes. works well when those bass on in the 15-25 ft hanging around openwater structure.
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