I recently bought a big soft tackle box with 8 plastic toots. With everything I had I only filled 4 of them. So instead of just buying stuff I think might work. I rather (cheat kind of) and ask what you guys use. And buy that. It doesn't matter the season since I like to fish all year round( as long as the waters not frozen). Brendan has help me alot with this(Thank you). But I would like to hear some of your ideas biginner or pro. So letter rip and thank you in advance.

Plastics or Hard Baits?

my faviorte lure is not always the most productive,but it has its time and place, like all lures. but it is the floating rapala,i have caught 2 many species of fish 2 list them all,from largemouth and smallmouth,striper,trout,walleye and a few catfish.the only bad thing is if u have any pickerl or pike in your lake where u fish,they love em,any there destroy these lures. literaley, i have had them break one in half before,so this is a lure that is a must have in all takle boxes,now if you are just looking 4 bass, lipless cranks and tubes are always rigged when tournament fishing,no matter the place or weather these 3 will catch fish, good luck bro!

fav 5

1. BBZ swimbait, floater
2. 8 inch huddleston, ROF 5
3. 6 inch huddleston, ROF 12
4. Slug-go, pearl white
5. norman dd22 crankbait, chartruese

oh yeah i also forgot jigging spoons and slug-go

Both if you want? I fish both. Thanks you everyone

Ok..here is my list of top 5 Baits by Catagory

Plastics:

Fat Ika - June Bug
6" Roboworm Fat Straight Tail - Aaron's Magic
Tru-Tungsten 5" Dart - Watermelon Green/Purple Flake
4.5" Roboworm Curly Tail - Hologram Shad
5" Yamamoto Senko - Baby Bass


Topwater:

1/4 Oz Buzzbait - Black
Heddon Zara Spook - Flitter Shad
Megabass Pop X - Bass
Daiwa TD Minnow Floating - Yellow Spot
Lucky Craft Waketail - Ghost Minnow


Shallow Crank :

Ima Roumba - Bluegill
Mann's Baby -1 Elite Series - Bluegill
2" Original Floating Rapala - Silver/Black
Lucky Craft Pointer Minnow 78 - Ayu (Skeets Magic will be my next color)
Smithwick Limited Rogue - Bream


Medium and Deep Divers:

Lucky Craft Bevy Shad 75 - Ghost Minnow
Bomber Fat Free Shad - Threadfin Shad
Norman DD22 - Lavender Shad
Megabass Deep X - Craw
Rapala Shad Rap - Shad and Craw


Lipless Crankbaits:

1/4 oz Rat L Trap - Baby Bass
Strike King Red Eye Shad - Japanese Shad and [censored] Shad
Cordell Spot


Spinnerbaits:

Booya Quad - Purple Glimmer Shad
Persuader Assasinator - Chartreuse/Blue

Swimbaits:

6" Castaic Platinum - Trout
6" Basstrix Hollow Belly - Perch
Mini Slammer
Huddleston
Mattlures Bluegill

Jigs:

Skinny Bear 1/4 oz - Brown and Orange w/Berkley Craw Trailer

Holy cow Roboworm99, I think that should cover it. Thanks for taking the time to type all that

Your welcome..those are my faves in each catagory...some new baits are moving up the charts and im sure will replace some that have been my goto's for sometime now.

if i had to choose one hard bait and one plastic...i would go with a lipless crank and 6" Fat Straight tail robo...i could drop shot, split shot, carolina rig, shakey head, wacky rig and t-rig the worm. The lipless can be fished in any water column and at just about any retrieve and Ihave one of those in my box at all times.