These are the plugs that respondents listed as their first choice:

Bomber
Spit-N-Image
Gibbs Stubby Needle Fish
Creek Chub Popper (twice)
Y-Z Crystal Minnow (mentioned 8 times but
only once as first choice)
Atom Popper
Habs Needle Fish
Krocodile
Goo Goo
Canal Special (for the Cape)
Rebel

The only repeat so far is the Creek Chub Popper. Just about every plug available (and a couple that aren't) has been mentioned.

This has been a great help. I now KNOW that I have to have every plug that's on the market! }>

looks like a good list. I've never heard of the "Canal Special". Someone want to explain it?

Goo-Goo Eyes are still available if that is the plug you are referring to being gone. I saw them in a catalog somewhere. I just gotta find which one. I distinctly remember seeing it because I thought they were discontinued. Boy, I need a filing cabinet for all these catalogs.

The Canal Special is a round bucktail jig, most popular for the canal because it can take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. Ok so I made that part up, I use them becuase alot of times I feel that a smilin bill style "swims" way to fast on a humping tide. I'm sure some others argue, that's why it's called an opinion.

East Tide