what lure / what technique during your career

[rickhise]

Started with a Jitterbug and thought it was the best thing ever.. Remember when you would throw it out, wait til the rings go away and then pull it two feet and repeat? Then BOOM! Go to a pond late one summer evening and take a kid, they will forever remember that BOOM!

in the tray next to was the hulla popper

[dac244]

in the tray next to was the hulla popper

And don't forget the crazy crawler

[ElectricSLT]

Culprit red shad ribbon tail worm - the last bag of those I have was bought at the old Washington St Warehouse - it's been 10 years since I've fished with them.

Good post!

[roadrunner]

Starting out was the original floating Rapala then it had to be the Texas rigged worm

[Big T @ E.C.]

I, like mr. Hall, had a boat when i was in high school, had to borrow mom and dad's car to pull it. Back then, the timber was still standing in nolin, you could take a floating rapala, if the water was calm, or a neal spinner, if it was a little choppy, and tear them up. The 1st time i fished a worm, i was told, when they hit it, drop your rod, push the free-spool button, and count to 10!! Now, does this give away my age???
(i also remember using the original pedigo spin-rite, fishing the jumps)

[BassBest]

QUOTE: "The 1st time i fished a worm, i was told, when they hit it, drop your rod, push the free-spool button, and count to 10!! Now, does this give away my age???"

lol, there's a young old man I use to fisj with that would do that in spring. He did this very patiently, it was driving me crazy to see him wait that long, that takes confidence. And it worked!
Being under the 30 mark, I try to listen to the wiser fishermen who have been soaking lures in KY for over 40 yrs.

[offdtop]

Tough one for me..... First lure i remember using was the Rooster Tail and road runners - back then I just wanted to catch fish of any kind, but then one day in a creek I was dragging a night crawler that was dangling from a hook and caught a bass. Being a quick study I release it and hung the worm again from the hook casted and drug it back - WHAM!!! caught another bass each one being between 2-1/2 and 3 Lbs did this like 5 or 6 times in a row.... They stopped biting and I thought to myself I heard of people using "Rubber" worms boy that would save me hours of digging these big ole nightcrawlers so I went to the tackle store and found Culprit worms in Moccosin, these were dark brown on one side and coppery on the other. My next trip I took my little idea and spinning rod to the creek, in fact I was doing what was then called "split shotting" (basically a light line C-Rig) first cast BAMMM!!! I was hooked and thus it began......

Although I have since spent what seems like millions of dollars on every color shape size of baits I still fondly remember the age old question "where were you when......". But I must admit that 5 years ago I was introduced to the Shakey Head technique and it has had a HUGE impact on me as well, so 30 years later this dog can learn new tricks lol.

[Fntsyfbgod]

The sluggo was really good to me at one time.

[walkeraviator]

Being under the 3-0 like bassbest, there hasnt been a whole lot of NEW stuff to revolutionize fishing. But I can say that i started on a Rapala Original Floater on a Johnson Rod/Spincast setup. Then it was on to ShadRaps, and my dad's home made spinnerbaots and buzzbaits. That and a T-Rigged powerwrom was my entire arsenal til recently. The two soft baits that have really caught on for me is the 5" Senko (Yum Dinger in my case) and the RI Smallie Beaver.

[Panfish Man]

I know most of you are bass guys, but I chime in anyway. I like to jig fish with a 11' Sam Heaton rod, 4lb. hi vis line, and a 1/16th plain lead head, with a lime green BG baby shad. It flat puts slabs in the boat.

[smljaw]

Gaining confidence in a jig and learning how to fish it well. Over the past 10-12 years, the jig has helped me catch more and bigger fish. A distant second would be an 8-10' running crankbait.

[mawi97]

My lure would have to be the Senko. I can tie a senko on and know that I am going to catch a fish. This lure has kept me in the hunt in many tournaments when nothing else seemed to work.

Technique would probably have to be skipping a tube or jig. After several years of practice I feel that this is one of my strong suites. It allows you to get to fish that a lot of other people have passed over by throwing lures in front of or around that piece of cover.