Another thread got me thinking......if you had to fish the season with just one plug (no rubber, bait, metal, dynamite) what would you choose? What color? Why?

Just sticking to wood...
Yellow darter, red head... hands down my #1 confidence plug. Fishes great in rips, big water, or twitched slow on calm nights.

Black Bomber

Bone redfin, loaded

Great poll idea.

If this question was more site and time specific I could answer the query, one plug all season in a single color and size is impossible for me to rationalize.

Those that could answer this are and must be truly blessed for doubt does not hinder them as it does me.

Well if it was survivability (i.e. desert island) I'd say white bucktail jig.

Yellow Danny with a white belly. Works in the day and at night, rough or calm water, in fast or slow water... If I could only have one that would have to be it...

Olive Mambo Minnow

I said spook, but mine sink so they are not limited to on top. Flap it's only a poll no one is going to make you use just one.

If this question was more site and time specific I could answer the query, one plug all season in a single color and size is impossible for me to rationalize.

Those that could answer this are and must be truly blessed for doubt does not hinder them as it does me.

Just a hypothetical question, Steve,...........for my part I'd go with a yellow/white medium danny. Good day or night most places and both big and small fish like 'em.

I would have to pick a plug that would be versatile since you are saying we can only choose one. Depending on where I fish also comes into play. If I only had one plug , then I'd have to choose something that would work in at least a few of the places I fish. I don't really use needles in the canal and very few times from a boat , and they tend not to work that well in daylight so my choice would have to be a spook as long as it is one of my own built to what I need it to do. It could double as a slowly retrieved needlefish at night, it works on top several ways at first light and during the day, they work great from the boat, they do things that swimmers won't do. The only drawback is they won't go deep so I hope I have a jig and rubbah with me also ;)
The color would be pearl belly, light blue head because I have had great luck with one like that. It will imitate a squid, herring, mackeral most any baitfish if I want it to. I wouldn't choose a danny myself because I can do so much more with a surf howdy.

no pikie on your poll? :huh:

seeing as eelskin plugs are not all "natural",jigs are not plugs, If I had just one plug ... I'd choose one of my slow sinking 6" needles, olive over white.......the versatility of the needle and what it does or can represent gives me options other plugs dont...

I could fish it "nekid" on top as a popper using a rapid retrieve if the fish were on top, add wraps of solder around the body or tail to change the weight for adjustment to local conditions to fish deep in rough or fast water....


or, I could fish it the way I ntended it to be fished if the conditions are to my likings....I've taken alot of big fish on my own needles, hard to turn my back on them in my time of need....

Can I just opt for fresh sand eels... I could use those 75% of the time...

Guess I'm blessed, Steve -

Small yellow/white Carlezon pencil. My deserted isle plug.

I'd go foe a white canal special.

Hmmmm Yellow Red Head Pencil or White Spook...

Just a hypothetical question, Steve,...........for my part I'd go with a yellow/white medium danny. Good day or night most places and both big and small fish like 'em.

okay okay then my choice would be a needlefish, white. Something that comes easily to the surface.

#1 Pencil in....Yellow over White
#2 Blitz Seeker....Herring
#3 "45" Swimmer....Herring

As Flap said...I had to ease my concience and list the top 3!:kewl:

chartreuse a-salt bomber even though it would limit the amount of conditions I could fish in. if i had to fish a whole season with one plug and used that I think I would still catch more fish by season's end on that than anything else.

Blue and White Danny.

bone redfin

loaded w/ 13 cc's


highlighted with blue

Black jointed 7" bomber. At one time, that was all I fished with during a season. Had good success with it.

no secret ,,,8" blue/white needle... Have a good history with that plug ... If you let me have 2 I'll take a 6" olive needle for spring ... again good history ..

Edit if I can have a third like others give me a 5 1/4" pearl white Jigman spook .. those 3 is all I need .

OOoooohhhh - White Spook & Rattle Cans

1.Pencil-red/white
2.needle-white

Limited to one plug, I would have to say a pencil popper, 3 oz or larger and in white ... as I enjoy this plug so much and have done well with it ... there are multitudes of ways to work it, even for night time that have been productive ... but it's my overall favorite

yellow pencil
but If I could use metal a white bucktail jig with pork
and only fish at night a white neddle

If 2:
Pencil Popper during the day
School Bus bomber at night.

If 1:
School Bus bomber

This question reminds me of my striper swiper addiction which thousands of hours on the internet and 2 crates full of custom plugs and rubber can't break me of. Sad but true. White 1 1/4 striper swiper. Because its second nature, and there are lots of ways to make it dance.

well thats a tough one
hmmmmmm have to be a olive needle will work all the time !:btu: :btu:

1)pencils
2)needles
3)bombers

Just like the diverse ways I can work me pencils.
Color is a tuffy, but I think white is the most versatile.

redfin very versaitile

it would be a parrot Needlefish, I believe the 2 tones of a plug helps make it look more like a bait fish, A needlefish is because of where I fish it is the bait it matches the best. and have had the best luck with. I usually start with a 2.5 or 2 oz. and go down form there if there is a blow on I go up from there.

Bone redfin, loadedthat plug works day or night,calm or rough surf always the first out the bag.

MAC 3oz danny white with pink stripe. my favorite and best catching plug in my bag...

White spook with a thin bucktail, nothing better than watching a cow smach my favorite plug. She is getting pretty beat up, if she starts to sink bad i will replace.

Beachmaster Atom 40:btu:

12 choices and # 12 on the list beat out 6 on the list !!!
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Black Bomber

I have to agree with you Max.......

the needle fish is the all purpose plug that i wouldnt leave home without.. lot of hits on those things... tight lines to all ..

Black Bomber ..........

Rigged Eel :fishslap:

Just 1? :smokin:

School bus bomber would probably be the one.

If Bomber goes out of business I am going to rob Joey G's stash. He buys every black bomber we get in the shop before I even know they are on the shelves

loaded black/gold-sided mambo

If some one told me I could only use one plug all season....
First I would cry for about an hr.
Then I would have to chose a black or olive spook.
If that was unavalible a hot pink bottle plug.