Top artificial baits of 2010

[dipbait]

What were your top producers this past year for the game fish that you target ?

My number 1 lure was the old standby Buzzbait.A small black Booyah was the most successful . Ive been throwing buzzbaits for over three decades and they really came through this year. Spring, summer, fall , day and night it was my top Bass lure.

A close second was the 3" Mister Twister Sassy Shad in shad pattern. Another lure that I first used many years ago, it fell out of favor as a bass lure because of the number of lost fish. For the last couple of years Ive been using better jigheads , made specifically for bass and the Sassy shad has risen to one of of my most dependable bass lures. Largemouth, smallmouths, crappie , channel cats and drum fell victim to this classic.

edited: I should add the Matzuo jig heads which have made the sassy Shad so effective.

 

[sherlockbonez]

I always has success with spinners and spinnerbaits.

Spinnerbaits for bass and pikes, spinners for steelheads.

 

[DennisStrickland]

pop-rs have always been good for me in more open water. in the weeds & pads nothing has outproduced the plastic frog by stanley.
dennis

 

[sherlockbonez]

I love the pop r too. I still use my signature series one from when I was maybe 14 with those twisted Excalibur hooks.

 

[Ebbtide]

IDK if it was the top producer... but I had the most fun with and caught my personal best with...
Kermit!
AKA the white scumfrog.

Just love froggin'

 

[SkinnyJoe]

My all-time favorite:

 

[Flexxx]

Lucky Craft-Pointers
Chompers-Skirted twin tail grub
Huddelston-8" TROUT
3:16 swimbaits-baby wake
Deps Buzzjet Jr.
Gary Yamamoto-pro senko with Picaso shake down jig head (shakey Head)

And my favorite fishing rod helped alot also.

 

[pilote]

i'm primarily a trout guy...i'm with skinny joe; i'm a bigtime mepps user...and i like my thomas buoyant spoons too...year in year out, there is always some version of a mepps lure that will hit'em hard...last year it was the comet mino; they really chased that one...

 

[fishiker]

Like several of you I love trout fishing. My favorite and most reliable lure last year was a Joe's Fly spinner, I found that the size-2 blade constantly outfished the same pattern with a smaller blade. A new lure that was a great surprise was Crappie Magnet, clear with silver flake. I caught more large trout with these last year than all others combined.
https://www.troutmagnet.com/store/p...7.html?zenid=aba6e299df5dbae1e13fe5fc32fdbdf5
http://joesflies.com/

 

[pilote]

i picked up a couple of those joes flies; haven't used them enough yet to make an opinion...but i will; they look pretty effect...

 

[cramsey3006]

Best ones for me were the original Worden's Rooster Tail and various soft plastics. I don't fish lures very much, but the Rooster Tail always produces for me. Largemouth, smallmouth, stripers, wipers, hybrids, panfish. It slays on all of them.

My kids bought me a couple of containers of Berkley Alive baits and they worked great. Sometimes I'd just fish them like cut bait and I'd catch fish on them. I also put them on under bobbers for smaller kids and they worked great there too. They last longer than nightcrawlers or redworms. :thumbup:

 

[Ebbtide]

One thing I do want to use more next summer are soft swim baits and big, 4-5" shads on jig heads.
I had some success with them and was surprised that a 12" LMB would hit a 5" sassy shad.

 

[tom19176]

Used alot of Joe's flies with sucess on Bass, Trout and panfish. Small Mepps spinners worked great also. I had a hard time getting farm raised stocked trout to bite, but finally caught a ton of them using various dry flies behind a float cast on a ultra light spinning set up.

how did you fish that Crappie Magnet? With a float or juts casting? Jigging doesn't work for me as I don't have a boat....

 

[dipbait]

Deps Buzzjet Jr.

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I had to look this one up. How did you fish it? On top , cranking?

It is unusual .

 

[fishiker]

i picked up a couple of those joes flies; haven't used them enough yet to make an opinion...but i will; they look pretty effect...

When you buy pay close attention to the blade size because it does make a difference. I normally add a size B or BB split shot 12 - 16" ahead of one. The most effective method for me is to cast it across stream and work it slow as it washes downstream.

 

[pilote]

how did you fish that Crappie Magnet? With a float or juts casting? Jigging doesn't work for me as I don't have a boat....

yea; i inherited a bunch of these ...i DO NOT know how to use those...

 

[VictGerbSogCamill]

I fish for bass mostly and have had great success with the following Rapala lures :

1. X-rap color rusty crawdad (My goto lure)
2. Jointed Shad Rap color shad ( love the action)
3. Clackin’ Rap color firetiger (Caught a bass on my third cast)

I have many other lures, but these three never let me down!!!!!

 

[esevato]

there is a new hard bait walking frog, have not got it yet $60.00
Im a dog walking freak, Baits are like knifes, always the best one
right around the corner

 

[fishiker]

yea; i inherited a bunch of these ...i DO NOT know how to use those...

I fish them in streams using a steady retrieve adding movement by twitching the rod. I like the fact that I can fish them at different depths and speeds. The color seems to be the biggest factor. Here's a nice Brookie I caught last spring out of a heavily fished stream using a crappie magnet. I watched two guys fishing the same hole using spinners and live bait catch nothing. I hooked this guy on my second cast.

 

[arijer]

Hmmm... well by far

1) Learning to throw the cast net better. lol:thumbup:
2)Gulp Shrimp in Glow
3) DOA Shrimp in Glow and in measles color
4) Bass Assassin in FireTiger Shad Tail
5) Yo Zuri Crystal Minnow
Offshore

6) Butterfly jig.. See below

7) Yo Zuri Hydro Popper
8) Ocean Tackle vertical Jig
9) Spro 6 oz bucktail in Glow
10) Shimano Lucanus Jig