I'm gearing up for the season and trying to fill a Plug bag up w/ some essentials. Problem is I don't know what the essentials are. What are some of the basics I should carry?

Look at it like this. Someone has stolen ALL of your plugs. The stripers are a month away and you need to gear up. What would you make sure you had in your bag.

Not looking for all of the secrets just the basics.

Habs needles
Tattoos spooks and darters
Bassassins
Rebels
Pencil poppers
Hi-lo rigs
live herring

black mambos, habs needles, danny, storm shads, cocahoe minnows,

Since the bass will be chasing herring first, I would start with

1 GS Slammer, olive
2 Gags mambo - olive
3 Pikies and dannys
4 poppers - pencils etc.

also I would have some jigs and some skinjigs and kastmasters

5 then needles
6 Yozuri mag darters
7 Tattoo or beachmaster or superstrike darters
8 Bombers
9 don't forget the Mr. Wigglys
10 Surfster

It all depends on where and when you are fishing. I change my plugbag all the time depending on where I fish.

my night bag-
two 7" black mambo's-switch the hooks for VMC 3/0
7" rebel swimmer, gold/black, mackeral -VMC hooks
homemade needlefish-or ss needles
black wooden plugs-danny's and assorted customs
yellow wooden plugs
teasers

my day bag-
2 1/2 oz polaris popper-white/blue
3 1/2 oz polaris popper (when they're waaaay out there)
2 oz hammered hopkins
2 oz kastmasters
yellow pencil popper
white or yellow wooden swimmers
deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&s
leadheads with some plastics in a ziploc baggie

early season I don't carry my bag-just a small plano box in my pocket with schoolie stuff-plastics and leadheads-and a small popper or two

Great Info here. I am trying to get to the point of having a Day bag and a Night bag. Right now I just have the one. I like the Color info as that will help me start out. This is what I have in it right now.

Gibbs 2 oz. Pencil Popper Blue/White
Gibbs 2 oz. Pencil Popper Pink/White
Gibbs 1 3/4 oz. Needlefish Black/Purple
Salty 1 oz Stubby Needlefish Black/Purple
Salty 2.5 oz. Needlefish Blue/White
Salty 2.5 oz. Sea-gar Electric Blue/Chartruese
Habs 1.5 oz. (I think) Stubby Needlefish White
Atom 1 1/4 oz. Striper Swiper Blue/White
Atom 7/8 oz. Pencil Plug Black
Gag's 7" Mambo Minnow Black

As well as 9" slug-gos in Eel, 9" Ledgerunners in Black/Purple, asst Bucktail Jigs, Kastmasters, Crippled Herrings. Anything else you guys would want to add to this? I'm all ears

B'days coming and the wife wants to know what I want. I figured I could use this as an opportunity to round out the bag.

Put a red and yellow Atom striper swiper or two in there in various weight/sizes.

And a couple rebels

night -
needles white, black yellow/white, parrot
dannys -black, light colored one
darters-white
plastic lipped swim baits (bombers, yozuris or redfins)-black, light colored one
jigs-white, black
eel hooks
maybe a teaser


day -
poppers-white, yellow/white
metal
wildeyes-mullet
easter egg with jig and rubber-standard 3"-5" fin-s fish
darters-white, olive/white
sometimes some wood swimmers

Day White/blue popper with red head
Calm day White Popper with read head and bucktail
Rough Day Long thin popper or Needle popper :) killa
low light. Parrot popper
No light/night purple or black popper

oh yeah, 4" storm eye shad

Bombers/Mambos
Dannies
Needles
Storms
Cocahoe Minnows- For early season

pikies
dannys
deff poppers
Bombers

Mustad Live Bait Hooks in 7/0

Eels.........................

Oh I'm DEFINITELY going to sling some eels this summer. Thats a given. I've been cruising sites all winter and have a few Specificly picked out for just that type of fishing.

:)