Ok, I hung it up this weekend, :crying: not a bad season though; I had a lot of fun. I just wish that storm hadn’t come through; it was shaping up to be a really good run through the ditch.

As I was cleaning out my bag and cleaning up my lures ( I know it’s a sickness ) , I was thinking which lures are my top producers not my favorite just what catches fish and what dose it say about my fishing habits.
For me it’s my Gibbs and yo-zori poppers, next would be my Danny’s, and last would be my Rapala’s.

Curious to know others top lures where this season?

1. crippled herring
2. olive/white salty popper
3. Storm Shads

I had good luck w/ the Fin-s baits early in the season. Then I would have to say that the Mambo Minnows were producing pretty well late summer and in the Fall. There were others that were good once or twice but these seemed to produce pretty regularly.

Eels
Black SS Darter
Black SS Bottle
Needlefishes :lasso:
But my season has a way to go :boots:

spring :cocahoe , summer i could not put a finger on real tough fishing for me , fall : bunker storms and mambo minnows , the lure that worked last year for me the gibbs pencle popper came up short this year , the jury is still out on the 9 inch sluggo's need to put in some more time , i'm no sharpie but putting in my time

1.Eels
2.SS Darter
3.Gags needles....

Still plenty of time left though... :musc:

Black bomber. I cought 95% of my fish on that plug this year. You should see it :happy:

1oz. chrome Kastmaster

bernzy howdy
9" black sluggo

absolute death to fish.

This year it has been:

1) Bucktail jig

2) crippled herring

3) rubber shad

4) yellow pencil and polaris poppers

I am about 90% done for the year but if somthing special comes up I will go again.

In no particular order:

2 oz crippled herring

schoolbus bomber

Bernzy surf howdy (yellow, pogie or herring)

:bl:

Eels
needles
the "bus"

MAC danny
pencils
slug-gos

Not too thread hijack but the very last thing I would ever throw is a popper. I dont even carry any. Maybe I'm missing something.

My best plugs are mambos, black or black and silver and a white stubby needlefish.

By far, I catch most of my fish on hack teasers I tie, black with some flash and a touch of blue bucktail. Bass of all sizes love these things.

Poppers in the spring are deadly effective. Some of my biggest spring bass have come on poppers. Also work offshore when the fish are working the surface.

Eels
Bassassassins
poppers (Guppy, Gibbs, Big-fish, Salty Bugger)
I got some quality fish on Habs needles this year too.

Blurple and Chartruse a-salt bombers and black 9" sluggos

I've never fished a hab's , are they really that good ? Looks like alot of tin's and jigs , I don't mind paying my do's to the canal god's , but it gets real expensive :eek5: , this season every time I would buy a few I would loss them on my first cast , never mind the line I would use along with the tin/jig.

montauk mikes peanut bunker tin, 7 1/5 in finsfish on jig head,blurple psyco swimmer,canal special bucktails and gibbs darter and pencil.

a little off topic i noticed that all most all the time the fish want a slow retrive. my theory is that it gives the fish time to notice and find it(hone in on the plugs vibrations)

1. Creamsicle spook Jr. kicked arse this year for me
2. tsunami popper, schoolbus
3. Eels

I caught on alot of plugs this year though, mostly from guys on here

1. Eel color choppy needlefish

2. 7" Olive Mombo

3. 2oz. Charlie Graves

I had one of the best seasons I have had. Caught my first over forty pounds on an artificial. My favorites list would be:
1. Tattoo Black and Gold 2oz Swimmer
2. Habs 1.5oz Purple and Black Needle
3. Habs 1.5oz white and charcole needle
4. Afterhours yellow Fatboy Slider

afterhours blonde slider and purple/white spook

my own stuff

spring - BigFish's yellow and red pencil :beat:

fall - black mambo minnow (per usual)

Depends on conditions:
Most of the time my go to are 7" Redfins loaded or 7" Rebels
In rough water, SS Needles
Scud Needles
Rigged Sluggo style baits (Yum worms)

Eels....
Bucktails...

All of their spots and places...