Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by Isaiah20 » Sun Feb 24, 2019 12:25 pm

Love
2.75 inch green pumpkin tube on a 3/32 mushroom head jig.
3 inch Yum Dinger weightless or with a BB slipshot.
2.5 inch Power minnow on a drop shot


Hate
Inline spinner and spinner bait.
Crankbaits
Spoon

Only hate these lures because they don't last.
Pike steal them.

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by cubs23 » Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:47 am

Love:
Spinner baits
square bills
Anything top water


Hate: (really don't hate... just need learn more and get better)
Jigs
Jerk baits
Finesse baits

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by Edward78 » Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:49 am

Love
LipLess CrankBait
JerkBait
Any T Rigged Soft Plastic, creature and big worms are my favorite

Hate
Deep Diving Cranks
Football Jigs
Hollow Frogs

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by Drew03cmc » Sun Apr 14, 2019 6:46 pm

My 3 go to are different on my local lakes and ponds vs the Ozark rivers I love, so first, local stuff:
Go to:
1-chatterbait
2-weightless T-Rigged Trick Worm
3-spinnerbait

Hate:
1-jig (mossy, crappy bottoms)
2-walking plugs
3-crankbaits (see jigs)

Rivers
Go to:
1-spinnerbait
2-3" Hi Def craw on Stealth HD jighead
3- Plopper

Hate:
1-walking plugs
2-deep cranks
3-Ned Rig
Andy

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by DirtyD64 » Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:51 pm

3 Best:
Smaller Keitech SI FAT on a weedless jighead
TX Creature, normally the smaller 3.5" Biffle Bug
4.5" Roboworm FAT on a shaky head or dropshot, both 3/16 in weight

3 I don't hate, but rarely get to produce on my river:
ALL TOPWATER
Spinnerbaits
Chatterbaits, hate to list this one because I try a lot, just very few fish

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by versus158 » Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:14 am

Love :

Swim jigs (just works everywhere)
top water in general (doesn't always produce but boy is it fun)
T Rigs (so versatile)

Hate :

Senkos
Drop shots
Deep diving cranks

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by ShimanoFan » Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:52 am

Love:

Calcutta swimbaits - not made any more
inline spinners
flukes

Hate:
Senkos, senkos, senkos...
V shaped spinners
tubes
Why is there a concerted effort of hate? And why is it allowed?

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by BigG » Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:21 am

Love:
Pop R's
Swimjigs
Shaky Heads

Hate:
Drop Shot
Jigs
Tubes

But I going master the jig and drop shot some day.

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by white84z » Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:54 pm

Love:
Riot Baits Minima Jig
Zman Chatterbaits
Spro Bronzeye frog

Hate:
Just about any crank or spinnerbaits.

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by earthworm77 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:20 am

Do you guys "hate" these baits because they don;t work for you or you simply have little experience with them?

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by Hogsticker2 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:21 am

earthworm77 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:20 am
Do you guys "hate" these baits because they don;t work for you or you simply have little experience with them?
This is the 1st thing that's made sense to me the entire thread lol

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by earthworm77 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:02 pm

Hogsticker2 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:21 am
earthworm77 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:20 am
Do you guys "hate" these baits because they don;t work for you or you simply have little experience with them?
This is the 1st thing that's made sense to me the entire thread lol
I mean people hating jigs?
That means to me they likely don't know how to fish them because they surely are one of the
more consistent bigger fish baits out there.

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by BigG » Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:03 pm

earthworm77 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:02 pm
Hogsticker2 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:21 am
earthworm77 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:20 am
Do you guys "hate" these baits because they don;t work for you or you simply have little experience with them?
This is the 1st thing that's made sense to me the entire thread lol
I mean people hating jigs?
That means to me they likely don't know how to fish them because they surely are one of the
more consistent bigger fish baits out there.
You got me!

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by mthao105 » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:39 pm

Go to's
-Jig
-Senko
-Spinnerbait

Hate
-Dropshot
-Spybait
-C-rig

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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?

Post by skintimate » Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:26 pm

Go to:
1: 2.8 Keitech on a revenge darter head in 3/16oz.
2: DS a 4.5" robo in MMIII.
3: 3/8oz Jackhammer in GP with a Zaku.

Hate:
1: Crankbaits (all of them)
2: Weightless anything
3: Spybaits

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