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What are just 3 baits you can not live without on the water???

Mine are... Senko(Watermelon Bk & Rd Flk), Speed Trap(Delta Craw), SpinnerBait(White or Sexy Shad)

Definitely Senko's, color varies, Beavers, once again color varies, and a jig and once again color varies..I don't believe color is near as important to the fish as it is to the fisherman..Of all the things we can control as a fisherman/woman color of the lure/bait is probably the least important..

mac

white or shad colored spinnerbait.
Roboworms color varies lake to lake.
watermelon senko red flake

I vary up stuff a lot so there's never three baits out there all the time, especially depending on season. But the one bait that is always out there in one rigging option or another is my Iovino s20 spade tail worm.


Right now my other two baits would be a lunker punker of one size or another and redcraw crankbait, either Bomber or SpeedTrap.

sTony

Right now my other two baits would be a lunker punker of one size or another and redcraw crankbait, either Bomber or SpeedTrap.

And I'll add to that a chatter.....shad pattern.

In no particular order or color I'd say frog, senko and jig OR frog, senko and spinnerbait. Either way I gotta have a frog.

Swim Bait
Jig
Rip Bait

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I like to use the BBZ knowledge and follow the Top, middle, bottom philosophy.
Too many picks really but I will try.
Body of water is relative so... I will use Orovile as my example.
Top is a Spook... or Mikey Jr.
Middle is a 1/8 darthead w/a Green Pumpkn Tube(I like the Magic worm tubes myself, thinner profile)
Bottom would be a 3/4 oz Brwn Purp Football jig. Yami 180 single tail trailer.

It might be different baits if I fish from the back or different water.
Senkos - 240(Smoke Blue Pearl)
Wacky Jig -SENKO ANY COLOR...
Lucky Craft cb350- Chartreuse Shad

Kap

Vixen, Stacee and a jig.

Senko, Roboworm, jig

I fish Clear Lake and if I don't whack 5 good ones, one thing is for sure, someone else will. 1) Jig, 2) Swim Bait, 3) Spinner bait.

Spook
Senko
Jig

beaver
staycee
6in handpour by Zipper in Columbia River Special color

Mattlures HardGill in slow-sink
Senko...green punkin
chatterbait...shad

I fish San Jose area reservoirs:

1) Roboworm MMIII either split shot or shakey head or drop-shot
2) Zoom Baby Brush Hog watermelon red flake or green pumpkin C-rigged.
3) Senko: watermelon red flake or green pumpkin
4) Zoom Trick worm: watermelon magic T-rigged
5) Hula Grub on a football head: watermelon red flake.

99% of my fish are caught on the above plastic and I always do try to get em using spinners, cranks and topwater but have to come back to one of the above. Of course my PB is still only a 6#'r so consider the source

7" x Senko
Big profile jig
Tiger DC-8

Wild Card, Watson's Wrat

Right now today:

Brown Jig-n-pig
White HairRaiser w/Hyperstryper tail
Vibrating swimmin' jig Char/White

For me, it's seasonal as well as situationally different from week to week. Without a doubt, there's only one bait I could not live without, and that's a jig. There are so many forms of jigs, I could come up with 3 types for every season as well as different sets for various bodies of water. Flippen jig, football head, darter head, Gitzit, Hair jigs, Spider jigs, Vibrating jigs, paddle tails with a lead head jig, spoon jig, there's many more, but with just these, ya git my drift.

easy!..

my go-toos

Brush Hog
Lipless Crank
Finesse Worm

- Home made 1/2 ounce football jig, big texan skirt with a home poured big texan beaver

- 6" Home poured Elshere's Special worms(drop shotted) a darker version of the People's worm

- Black or White double buzzbait

1. ) Jig - If I could only have ONE color or style for any lake any time of year it would be a brown TnT Wadda Jig - With a Yamamoto Single tail in 164



2.) Jerk Bait - If you had to pin me down for one jerkbait on all bodies of water any time of year I would go with the Pointer 150 in Ghost


3.) Spinnerbait - If you had to pin me down for only one for all bodies of water any time of year I would have to say Limit Lures 1/2oz bluegil (white, chart, blue)




But please dont pin me down to one style or color throughout the year, it just aint right, that would be like trying to use a jackhammer to pound nails

In Calif and FL it's the same :

1) Senko # 297 green/pumpkin Black Flake
2) Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Char/Shad
3) Robo worm MMII

DB

This is a hard question basic on time of year, lake or river, weather conditions

Right now on the river

1. wadda jig with a single tail grub
2. speed trap
3. paddle tail swimbait

overall if i had to pick for any lake or river

1. senko
2. jig
3. drop shot

Rapala- BOMBER, AND ROBOWORM Cover it all from top to bottom

Whatever the winner was using.

The winner caught the big fish on the Rattletrap!

HAR!

If had only three to choose from and the time of year was not a factor it would be.
Jig
Trap
Spook.

If I had to narrow it down to one bait it would be a Jig hands down.

1/8oz. Darterhead

Senko

Speedtrap

senkos, robo worms(drop shot) and a jig ( colors will vary on all) but these will catch fish anywhere you care to travel or fish. BIll K

Soft swimbait
Jig
Rattletrap or topwater swimbait

Time of year and the body of water will vary the choices a little. Spring - 7 inch Osprey Swimbait, late summer and fall on the Delta - Frog, Late summer and fall on Santa Margarita Lake - Vibrating swim jig, etc.

Top three per the original question: My own handtied Jig with a variety of trailers, Booyah Spinnerbait and a Zara Spook.