In your opinion (it's a hard question), what would you put in your bag for stripers if you had only ten slots ?
Don't take into account the fact that some plugs are "hot" to get, just name your ideal fishing bag.
Ignore the sea, the weather, just imagine you only have 10 plugs for your wole season. And that your only rod can handle all of them. What would your choice be ?
(Personnaly, I own a lot (hundreds ?), but I realize that I always end fishing with the same stuff...

3 oz white bucktail
2 oz white bucktail
1 1/2 oz soft plastic jig head
2 oz soft plastic jig head
-----6" shad bodies to go on jig heads---

--3oz habs eel
---2 oz habs white
---3 oz beachmaster needle, purple and black
---danny swimmer white and pink
---bomber swimmer, all black

2 - 4inch shad
4 - Gibbs Pencil poppers (or home made versions)
4 - Charlie Graves........................

1.5 ounce bucktail w/pork
2.5 ounce bucktail w/pork
1.5 ounce jig head w/shad body
2.5 ounce jig head w/shad body
2 ounce habs needle charcoal/red eye
3.5 ounce habs needle charcoal/red eye
superstrike darter solid yellow
superstrike darter black/purple
7" redfin black
Canalman pencil popper

1. 3/4 oz bucktail
2. 1.5 oz bucktail
3. Tattoo yellow darter
4. Superstrike yellow bottle plug
5. Bomber 16a chicken scratch
6. Hellcat 48 yellow
7. Habs 1.5 oz white
8. Charlie Graves 3 oz bunker
9. Yo Zuri 3 oz Surface Cruiser
10. BeachMaster Danny -pearl/ white

Now multiple x3 and you have a chiropractors dream bag!

That's a good start !
Noboby has put a single "tin" in his bag yet (Kastmasters,...).
Noboby has put a plug under 1 ounce (which is an upper average for France, IMO)
During my august vacation in RI, apart from a slow-sinking 1.5 Oz French custom plug (check http://orionlure.free.fr/leurres.html), my most successful one was fully made of metal :

AZ- that's a cool site. neat to see plugs from across the pond. still thinking about my 10..

1) 2 oz Habs needle anything olive/blue/copper/charcoal
2) 3 oz Habs needle olive
3) Large Bernzy Surf Howdy olive
4) Bernzy pike olive
5) JB150 megabait black
6) 7" megabait minnow (a la rebel redfin, mambo ect) silver/blue
7) storm shad 5"
8) green and white bucktail (or all white) spro style 2 oz
9) 3 oz graves tin
10) Tatoo darter color: annything dark (why?....it has eyes!)

Originally posted by Arzic Olivier
That's a good start !
Noboby has put a single "tin" in his bag yet (Kastmasters,...).
Noboby has put a plug under 1 ounce (which is an upper average for France, IMO)
During my august vacation in RI, apart from a slow-sinking 1.5 Oz French custom plug (check http://orionlure.free.fr/leurres.html), my most successful one was fully made of metal :

Charlie Graves are tins. There are many styles but that solid bunker one is my favorite. It's alot easier to pick one instead of 10!In that case it would be a bucktail. If I use a single row bag, I pack it like a double. If it's my Coastal bag then I'll need a hand truck. Thank God for Winter! I need it just to get my spine back in place.

Sorry for that lack of American Fishing culture ;-)
And I understand what you mean when you say it's easyer to pick one than 10.
Same opinion about packing a single box : I tried to fill in as much stuff as I could before flying to RI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But let's try to follow the initial rules.
An intersesting other one would be : which only plug would you take for all year long fishing. Even harder !!!

1/2 // 3/4 oz lead head =various plastics,mostly ledgerunner on the hook ////////////:rolleyes:

Right now my bag is;
1 black 7" bomber
1 7" silver black rebel
1 Black Danny
1 Yellow Danny
1 Olive Salty Bugger Danny
1 Yellow White Needle
1 Blurple Needle
2.5oz smiling bill (white) tail with a pink ledgerunner
2.oz black bucktail with a secret trailer....:D

Hey Clammer !
Do you cover every situation with your plastics and jigheads ???
I don't know if I formulated it well, but couldn't resist to try...

A/O thats the go to if I only had one //// I can get my limit on fish that suppose to be bait feeders
also
ledgerunner /3 styles jerk bait
3/8 [[[[float]] poppers ,Smack-it ,,Gags
a lead -head will catch anything that swims // where alot of the gear mentioned =target bass ====@#$%^& blues , then albies ,,Etc
:cool:

A few answers to the many questions coming up from this thread...

If I only had one of anything to survive on (the old desert island and survival thing not for sporting purposes but for variety and I have to catch to live)

...2 oz bucktail (white)

If I could only fish one plug all year...7" black Mambo Minnow
------this just wins out over 5" Storm in bunker

As far as filling a bag is concerned that is a tough one...I like to fill one bag for days and one for nights...

I also don't count the tin when filling slots as most bags have separate tin slots...

that all being said...I am about to fill my Bag for this weekend...if I could only take one bag with 10 slots...here it is...

I am using my Large Aquaskinz Surf Bag

1. 1 2.5oz Guppy Pencil (Rainbow Herring)
2. 1 Super Strike Polaris (Pink/White) &
.................1 1.5oz Gibbs Polaris (Bunker) (1 slot)
3. 2 2.5oz HabsNeedles(Pink & Chrcoal w/red eye)
................(1slot)
4. 1 BM Needle (Black), 1 Habs Stubby (Pink), 1 Habs Stubby(White)(1slot)
5. 1 Tattoo Spook (White)
6. 1 BM Danny (Yellow)
7. 2 7" Bombers (Blurple & Olive/silver)
8. 2 7" Mambo Minnows (Black & Parrot)(1slot)
9. 2 Super Strike Darters (Blurple & Parrot)(1 slot)
10. 1 3oz Tatoo Darter (Pink Mack)

Top Flap Pocket has 3 5" Tsunami Shad (Bunker) & 3 6" Storm shad (Bunker)

1 side pocket has jar of Red & White Pork Rind

(Jig & tin slots hold)...1 2.5oz Hopkins w/ Bucktail...1 2.5oz Hopkins w/red tube...1 3oz Kastmaster w/bucktail...1 Graves Bunker w/hackle...1 2oz Spro white Jig...1 2oz Spro Chartreuse & white jig...1 3oz Smilin bill

I use many different things just like everyone else and I always carry as much as possible, but the 10 things that I have currently allways been carrying are:

1oz white bucktail
1oz black/red bucktail
black over gold yozuri crystal minnow (suspending)
black over purple bomber
chicken scratch bomber
3oz charlie graves with a feathered hook
1.5 oz polaris popper white
3.5oz polaris popper yellow/white
1.5oz Bernzy Surf Howdy purple haze, and
1.5oz Bernzy Surf Howdy black/copper.

These are the things that I won't leave home without.

Originally posted by BasicPatrick
)(1 slot)
10. 1 3oz Tatoo Darter (Pink Mack)


You bassturd!! You stole my Pink Mac didn't you R%^#:af: :laughs:

Wouldn't Leave home w/out!
1. Atom 40 whte
2. BM 40 Blk/ gold
3. Lime SS Needle 1.75oz
4. Smokey SS Littleneck 2 3/8 oz
5. Smokey SS Needle 1.75oz
6. Smokey SS Darter
7. White SS Darter
8. Drk Grn/ Blue Bob Hahn Danny 1.5oz
9. 1.5 whte Bucktail w/ Pork
10. 1oz Henry Hooker Blk/Purp/Red w/pork

mine are pretty generic

1. Black Mambo
2. Black/silver mambo
3. WHite needlefish
4. Black/purple needlefish
5. Yellow danny
6. Random popper
7. white jig - 2ozs
8. tatoo spook
9. black purp bomber
10. bag full of teaser flys

1. Habs 2oz-blurple
2. Habs 2oz- blue/white
3. Gibbs 21/2oz polaris, white
4. Newelly little black n gold pikie
5. Black mambo with no tail hook
6. Yellow bomber
7. Mackeral Mag Darter
8. Taggers Zagger
9. Blurple Choopy needlefish
10. Newelly 2oz blurple danny

One bag to survive on? Here goes (in no particular order):

1. Kathy Ireland
2. Naomi Campbell
3. Elle MacPherson
4. Claudia Schiffer
5. Carol Alt
6. Brittany Spears
7. Christie Brinkley (in a pool)
8. Heather Locklear
9. Heidi Klum
10. Cindy Crawford

With a bag like that who would have time to fish?

YOU know my two top choices Olivier.Kastmaster and black/purple Bomber.

well I have tossed everything today fish all around @the DITCH oh man is it because I'M a boater they not hungry
Let me tell ya from hab's to whomever link JR has hoed they have seen the H2O I'm trying every depth ? is up
well @least I can say I'm putting my time in
Oh yea in the bag,black and red eyes Bass master needle,,, newell guy pink & white rooster tail rocking danny, ledgeruner 4" split tails2 oz''''' someRI poppers for the surface action
salty lets not forget you your plugs have been MAULED by many fish
To me I am so happy to have so many talented PLUG makers in our bag just to watch the action is enough for me
just as long as I'm out there I'm happy
THANK'S TO ALL OF YOU
LINK SR.:cool:

so many plugs........
so little Time.......................:smash:

BM I see everyone is smiling in the pic..could there be some grab a$$ going on around the corner?
:D

4 0z. bucktail w/ ledgerunner rubba
2 oz kastmaster
Yozuri mag darter olive
Bomber black and gold chrome
2 oz habs needle copper
3 oz beachmaster needle black/purple/black
1-1/4 oz slipknot needle black/gold/silver
Tattoo darter olive
small pikie pearl
Bernzy surf howdy yellow/white

necesities...
polaris yellow/white....................my fav plug 1 1/2 oz
polaris white 1 1/2 oz
olive mambo 5or 7"
black/gold beachmaster danny
gibbs stubby needle yellow/white
bomber chicken scratch
charlie graves 2oz butterfish tin
white bucktail 2oz
bunker storm shad 5"
habs olive needle

these plugs i always have with me and end up using 95 percent of the time. I always start with the yellow/white polaris, caught more fish on that than any other plug. Its really the only plug i carry two of.

For a 10 slot surf bag:

1 - Hab's 2.5 Olive or parrot Needlefish

2 - Hab's Stubby 1.5 Olive or Blurple Needlefish

3 - Parrot tail-weighted Scud needlefish

4 - 7" Mambo - Black, Olive

5 - 7" Loaded Redfin - Black, black/silver, Bone

6 - Tattoo Darter - Blue swirl/Brunswick (dark green swirl)

7 - Bernzy Surf Howdy - Blurple Crackleback (go-to false dawn
plug), pogie pattern or green/copper

8 - Blurple Bomber

9 - 5" Bunker Storm Shad

10 - Pt. Jude's - 2.5 oz. Sea Scallop, large and small Po-Jees and
Butterfish

This is what I have in the 3 slot belt bag now.

2 - 3 oz crippled herring
2 – 2 oz crippled herring
1 oz Hopkins shorty
3 oz Hopkins
A-17 w/ green tube
Albie special
Deadly Richard in Green
3 oz Kastmaster
2 Habs needles
Mag Darter
Mag Minnow
Super striker darter
Wind cheater
Tsunami popper
4 assorted lead heads and rubber bodies or tails


You don’t want to know what goes in the big bag

pearl bomber
Bl.an purple bomber
mag darter
1oz.jig wit rubber
1.5 bucktail white
2.oz bucktail white
2 oz white Gibbs bottle blue eye
2 hook redfin smokey joe
rigged eel
3 oz. Pencil Popper made by me.
Not neccesarily a startin lineup just things I could not do without stranded on a Island.

1. 5 inch bunker storm wildeye
2. Olive Habs Needle
3. yo-zuri mag darter black and purple
4. chicken scratch bomber 16A
5. black bomber
6. black and purple bomber
7. Yellow gibbs Darter
8. Black and Orange superstrike darter
9. Black sluggos
10. Bassmaster Danny black and gold;)

:thanks: All for using HAB'S....................

Thanks to all for playing that silly game !!!

All but Mr Hab's, who's hiding behind his cabin !!!
I guess he fishes only his own stuff : who would blame him !
Well, I'm happy to tell you that I could put my hands on 2 hab's needles during my vacation, was lucky to buy them at M&D just after a delivery.
I wonder if they'll ever see the water......

Apart from this :
1 - I promise I'll do the same exercise and will try to post a picture : you'll see some stuff you know and things you've never ever heard about. But you'll see or guess that these plugs are quite similar to what you fish
2 - I'll sum up all your answers and try the "ideal" bag, kind of "beginner 101", what I was before this summer
3 - IF YOU COULD POST PICTURES OF your answers, that would help me a lot !!!