This last years hottest bait?

gullicad · Post by **gullicad** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:20 pm

So What has been the hottest bait or soft plastic out there this year. My personal favorites have been the white chatter bait and chompers hula grub in a light green color.

bassamasta · Post by **bassamasta** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:22 pm

Personally, as far as putting beasts and bruisers in the boat it has been the JigX for me. A Stren Series tournament was won with Jig X recently and I believe that the Jig X has been responsible for alot of strong tournament finishes this year. I know it has for me. I think that by summer or fall of next year this bait or its brother the Tube X will be as hot as the Chatterbait, at least with tournament fishermen.

johnnie crain outdoors · Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:03 pm

I have to go with Mann's Dragin Swim Worm in the natural brown/orange color. Caught lots of nice bass on them this year. 2nd would be the Zoom Baby Brush Hog/ Black Sapphire.

bassin butch · Post by **bassin butch** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:29 pm

4 inch black/blue kinami flash 2 years in a row now. In the fall Tom Monsoor swim jig with a zoom speed craw trailer green pumpkin color. Chatterbait on clear spinnerbait lakes, no luck in any stained lakes.

Bassin Butch

MMT · Post by **MMT** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:58 pm

I'm not sure about that Chatterbait. I think it was hyped up a lot more than it was successful. A couple opf baits stand out as really coming into their own within the last year throughout the country....
1-swimbaits-everyone is trying to get on board with this big fish bait
2-Float n Fly jigs- Cold water only but as soon as you lose the warmth, it is all any serious smallmouth angle will fish
3-topwater frog- Whether it is a hollow body model or a Horney Toad type, these things have been all the rage.

The Senko and Beaver have held their own as well.

swlchris · Post by **swlchris** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:53 pm

caught more fish on a wacky worm this year than ever. a new spinnerbait from Secert Weapon lures has been a great search bait.

Fish-N-Fool · Post by **Fish-N-Fool** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:24 am

My hottest bait by far was the Red or Green Shad colored Sink-N-Fool. I got about 90 of the 125 fish over 4 pounds on one of these baits.
Like this one here on green shad

Or this one I got just at dusk on a red shad

If it works here a a video of me catching her. Look at the trash I was in. It was a jungle under there in a willow thicket. This is a great video.

Capn jack duggins · Post by **Capn jack duggins** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:23 am

Man I feel old thinking about "last years hottest bait" going all the way back to the 1970's and the Mann's jelly worms and Creme's natural worms and Mister Twister Hawg Frawg's, and have come to the conclusion that almost nothing in fishing is "new".
Sure, someone comes out with a new color or slightly different shape, but new to some is old hat to others!

What really matters is who is going to set off the next "new bait" by winning a tourny or catching a new state or world record and what kind of advertising will it take to make it the top bait for this year?

Last year I still went back to 3 1/2" & 4" tubes, 5" Senkos, Fat Ika's and my usual topwaters like the Cavitron Buzz and Zara Spook!