Northwest Fishing Reports

What type of plastic baits do You guys like to fish best?

My personal favorite is zoom's finess worm in a cinnamon purple color rigged weightless.

And Second the Yum Wooly Bug rigged Texas style for flippin.

Strike King 3X 4" curl tail grubs

I love me some Zoom lizards, and Yamamoto Senkos. I drop shot for smallies entirely too much, so I haven't done much texas rigging lately.

Yamamoto double tailed hula grubs, Kalins five inch Lunker grubs.

Anything...I'd rather throw a hardbait, but I'll get into plastics more this summer and I like whatever works...

Green/brown pumpkin 4" zoom grubs. I do also like hula grubs. Pretty much grubs are my favorite plastic of all time. I'm not nearly as successful with senkos as some other people seem to be. I do also like thin profile baits like roboworms and trick worms on a shakey head or dropshot.

Trying to get into tubes, I have a feeling they might become a favorite as well.

Changes by the week. 2 months ago Yamamoto Hula grubs, last month Reaction Innovations beavers. Right now Roboworms and Sniper bolts for dropshotting. In a couple of weeks it will probably change again.

Senkos can't be beat around my neck of the woods. Any plastic I use it is usually rigged weightless. I think it is most appropriate because of a necessary slow fall and keeps the lure in the strike zone longer.

of course senkos are one of my favorites, i use 3", 4", & 5".
i also dropshot way to much, so i have tons of favorite dropshot baits. the ones i use the most would probably be GYCB 3.5" cut tail worms, KGM tad poles, and Sniper snubs.
i also like to use baby brush hogs, GYCB grubs, 3" tubes....

This is a good discussion. Again with us Bass fishermen, how many of us just have only one pole set up?? Most of us espiecially (spelling) former tournement fisherman have around 6 poles set and ready to Bass fish. As like skeeterbassin said changing every couple weeks, I do about the same. I guess one of my favorite plastics is a 4" zoom worm but I also like roboworms, and bass pro shops squirmin worms. I also like senkos of cource and tubes. They all have there place and style in how your fishing and also what the fish are hitting on. I havn't got into the drop shotting yet and want to give it a try this year if I get the time. What will happen is I'll get it figured out and have a good day doing it and i'll be just another set up in the boat to have. let's see 7set ups, 8 set ups,

My all time favorite which I have rigged at all times is a T-rigged green pumpkin zoom finesse worm with a 1/16 pegged weight which I dip the tail in spike it. I peg it with a black bobber stopper. I also love baby brush hogs ( caught two yesterday on it during lunch) as well as culprit ugly otters. I agree with basshunter on the number of set ups. I usually have 6 rods: 1. drop shot (small fluke) 2. T-rigged worm 3. C-rigged lizard 4. Spinner bait 5. Shallow crankbait 6. lucky craft jerk bait which I switch to a medium to deep crank (usually a bagley lure) once the water warms up.

I'm really liking the Yamamoto Kreature right now. Purple seems to be doing the trick. Dropshotting or T-rigged has been producing well for me.

Yamamoto skirted twin tail grub in watermelon is my current favorite.
My all time favorite was the 7 inch motoroil Manipulator worm. Been out of production for a LONG time but they were my go-to confidence bait.

Nailed a bunch on 6 and 4 inch lizards this weekend...I think I'm liking them a lot....Didn't try anything else so thats pretty subjective...

Mann's strawberry jelly worms. They're getting hard to find so I order them straight from Mann's

tmusky1 wrote:Mann's strawberry jelly worms. They're getting hard to find so I order them straight from Mann's

tmusky1, are there other Mann's products that you have done well on? I have never used Mann's and they have very good prices. Also, what size jelly worms do find are the most successful for you?


fishnislife

Yamamoto 4 or 5 inch single tail grub in dark purple on a gamakatsu hook, carolina rigged (weight dependant on wind). I just got back from Banks lake and my buddy and I pulled in 40 plus smallies and large on this rig in three days. Never had as much success fishing a lure before....it was incredible.
By the way, does anyone know if these are salt impregnated? It seemed like it to me, but says nothing about it on the package.

Clam Man

all yamamoto products are heavily salted, that's why they fall apart so easy...and catch fish. you will notice that when you pull your hook out from inside one of their baits it will have salt on it, or when it gets torn.

They are heavily salted so they A) sink much slower....and i wouldn't be suprised if B) so they fall apart easy so you gotta buy a bunch and C) they do catch fish because of impregnated scent