Basic Plugs to Carry

[The Dad Fisherman]

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.

[Rappin Mikey]

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

[bart]

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

[Slipknot]

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.

[blackeye]

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

[The Dad Fisherman]

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.

[striprman]

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

And a couple rebels

[rizzo]

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

[RI Popper]

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

[rwilhelm]

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

[missing link]

pikies
dannys
deff poppers
Bombers

[Fishpart]

Mustad Live Bait Hooks in 7/0

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

[The Dad Fisherman]

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.

[Slipknot]