1. Old Style Bomber 6A Firetiger. The old style was a different
plastic, using a lead bb. It dives deeper and has a different sound.

2. Old style Bomber 6A in the old crawfish color. Dark brown with black
stripes. A piece of sandpaper is used to dull the finish slightly.

3. Bagley crawfish. Seal the hookeyes and tie ring with clear
fingernail polish. Keep a bottle of clear fingernail polish handy for
any scrapes etc.

4. Zoom lizard in pumpkinseed/chart tail. Flipped and pitched into
buckbrush, stumps, etc.

5. A beetle spin. In that green color that you can see for a mile. It
can have a black stripe or a white dot. When nothing else works on the
rivers, throw a beetle spin. Be careful, they have light hooks.


Why? They work for me.













Bob La Londe wrote:
Here are mine.

1. Rooster Tail 1/6 oz in powder blue w/ silver blade. 1/16th oz for trout.
I caught my first bass ever on an inline spinner in moving water.

2. Zoom U-Tail worm in watermelon seed rigged on a 2/0 worm hook behind a
1/16 to 1/8 oz bullet weight. Can also be drop shotted very well. This is
the first bait I ever felt like I mastered or atleast caught fish because of
my abilities rather than just blind luck.

3. Storm Thin Fin Silver Shad in Chrome and black or gold chrome. (no longer
made) I caught my first fish over ten pounds (a 12 lb striper) on this
bait, but also it consistantly would produce decent bass slow cranked on
days when nothing else seemed to work.

4. Popper... Almost any color. Small or medium size. Popper. Yeah baby! Did
you see that one blow up on it!?

5. Little bent metal fish shaped spoon. This is the second bait I felt like
I mastered or atleast caught fish because of my abilities rather than just
blind luck. I had two or three patterns with this bait.

I would like to note that my largest numbers of bass and my largest bass
were not caught on any of my favortie baits listed above. Largest numbers
were easily caught on live threadfin shad freshly netted.

Largest were all caught on plastics, but not the one listed above.