my top 5 lures are
- banjo minnows
- ratteltrapps
- hula poppers
- swim shads

1. Carolina rigged watermellon color lizard
2. Storm Wild Eye Swim Shad in shad and baby bass color.
3. Black Jitterbug and frog pattern Hula Popper
4. 3/8 oz. Booyah spinnerbaits
5. Rapala zero bouyency jerkbait

Bass:
1) Rattle Trap
2) Senko
3) Lil' Winnie
4) Buzz Bait
5) Swim Bait

Trout:
1) Rooster Tail
2) Kastmaster
3) Panther Martin
4) Blue Fox
5) Eggs

Trout
 1 Curley's supersonic
2 roostertail (in rainbow pattern)
3 Blue fox wisper ( no longer made)
4 rapala original floating (rainbow trout pattern)
5  blue fox vibrax (gold)

Bass/ panfish

1  Booya spinner bait
2 shad rap
3 johnson beetle spin
4 gitzit tube smoke or pumpkinseed

5 texas rigged craw

Brian

Lures not bait for Northern Pike and Muskie
1. Rapala Husky Jerk (the ones with a rattle)
2. Mepps Comet Mino
3. Rapala Deeptail Dancer
4. Daredevil Yellow 5 of Diamonds
5. Mepps Aglia Dressed Spinner

The Five most used lures for open water are:
Kastmaster
Roostertail
Heddon Zara Spook Puppy
Rapala Husky Jerk
Yozuri Altima Pins Minnow

The Five most used lures for ice fishing are:
Lindy Rattl'n Flyer spoon
Northland buckshot spoon
Rapala jigging minnow
Salmo Chubby Darter
Eppinger Daredevel spoon

1.) Worden's Rooster Tail
2.) Strike King Pro Model Crankbait
3.) Bass pro Shops Curly Tail Stump Jumper
4.) White Curly tail Grub on a jighead
5.) Strike King Bitsy Pond Jig

Bass:
 1 - Rapala Max Rap 8 or 10 (blue back & white)
 2 - Strike King lipless crank bait (gold sexy shad )
 3 - Bomber Long A (silver flash or prism )
 4 - Spinner Bait ( craw fish head, watermelon with chartreuse skirt ) homemade
 5 - Bomber Shallow diving ( Baby Bass touched up with blaze orange lip & belly )
 6 - Rapala Floating or Suspending ( black back & silver, black back & gold )
 7 - Buzz bait ( white, chartreuse in daytime, dark colors at night ) homemade
 8 - Plastics ( June bug or watermelon )
 9 - Jigs ( dark blue and black )
10 - Johnson weedless spoon ( gold or silver )
       Should have added Rapala Clackin Rap & DT Thug and Rat-L-trap High-Def Trap

Texas rigged lizard
Rapala Dt series
Spro aruku shad
curly tail grub
rapala shad rap

Original floating Rapala
Manns baby minus
Jitterbug
floating frogs
Black spinnerbait with colorado blade

Well In the Spring and Summer they would be: (For Regular Bass)

A Rat L Trap Type Bait (usually A Red Eye Shad or a Lucky Craft/Jackall)
A Terminator and a Redemption Spinnerbait
A LC and a Rapala jerkbait
A Snag Proof and Spro Frog (Toad Baits a close second)
A Buzzbait

For TROPHY CLASS BASS:

A swimbait ( slow sinking ) Hudd Baits, Romanade, Castaic
A Swimbait (topwater and sub surface Wake Baits) JSJ Dirty Bird, Black Dog Shellcraker, Lunker Punker etc.
A large buzzbait with a trailer
A 10-12 inch worm
Live 10-12 inch Shiners

they would be in no specific order senkos,june bug or watermelon red. Baby brush hog same colors & red black glitter,Rattle traps,bandit crank baits,spro frogs but i can go on and on. its hard for me to just stop at five because conditions play a key in what i want to use,especially after they hold a tournament on my favorite creek,then i try to use their least favorite five baits. LOL

How do you fish the banjo minnow? I cant catch any fish on it!

1. Texas riged weedless worm
2. Spinnerbait
3. Rattle n trap
4. Jitterbug
5.Daredevil Red and white

1. Original Floating or Jointed Rapala
2. Boyah Spinnerbait
2. Hoola Popper
3. Ribbed Plastic Worm
4. Rattle Trap
5. Boyah Jig

TIGHT LINES!

1.Booyah Micro Pond Magic( Wasp color)
2.Curl tail grub (white or flourescent green)
3.Johnson Beetle Spin (curl tail grub instead of beetle)
4.Wave Worm Tiki-drop (wacky rigged)(smoke w/ red flake)
5.Strike King Pro model crankbait (bleeding bait)

Question for Memphisfish. have you noticed any affects to the action on the beetle spin by replacing with a curlytail? I have been messing around with different replacements for the beetle on these.

Brian

1. Cordel Super Spots
2. Bandit Crank Baits
3. Zoom 4" lizards
4. Senkos 5"
5. Termanator Spinnerbaits

The baits I listed before are the TOP 5 ALL TIME! Counting 45 years of bass from Coast To Coast. The HOTTEST BAITS right NOW are Different!>
They are:

1.) CHATTERBAIT- ZMAN (modified)
2.) RAGE TAILS - Strike King
3.) WACKY RIG SENKO -(Modified Tactics) Special hook by Gamakatsu (it really matters)
4.) SWIMBAITS -(Huddlestons and G2 Shellcracker (Black Dog Baits)
5.) LUCKY CRAFT CRANKBAIT (Big Daddy Strike 3)

If you want to actually see what these baits catch, just click the link. Don't take my word for it, just watch and learn. Tight lines, and good luck, Steve VIDEOS ON THESE BAITS >> Click Here

1-shad body crankbaits (deep and shallow)
2-minnow body crankbaits (deep and shallow)
3-different weight jigs with soft plastics attached
4-anything with a spinning blade (in-line spinners, spinnerbaits, road runners)
5-poppers and spooks
Want an easy way to get a wake bait with a popper ? Use a line that sinks (floro or braid) hold top quarter of rod underwater and crank. Pause occasionally to let the bait pop back to the suface and hold on. Water displacement is the key, works best with a bit of wind that ripples the water so the fish can't get a good look at the bait.

my top 5
1- gulp minnows 2inch
2- senkos 3,4 and 5inch
3-buzzbait
4- curly tail
5- 4inch mister twister finnesse worm

#1 rapala deep diver (sexy shad or blue gill ) #2 senkos # 3strike kingred eye shad #4yamamoto 5in d/t h-grub #5 yum 5in dinger worm #6 berkley 7in power worm these all work good around here (ca)

1.senkos2.
2. bitsy tubes
3.spinners
4.arcadia shallow cranks
5. rapala countdowns
like turnip my go to box has more than 5 types of lures.  also this list is for bass crappie i have a diferent set of lures as well as other species have thier own box

trout:
flord spoon
krocodile spoons
thomas spinner
kastmaster
panther martin

Bass:
spro froggs
bass jigs w/ pork trailer
banjo frog
rattle trap(white/red, silver/black)
x-rap

catfish:
liver w/ coolaid
dynamite cat dip
nitecrawlers
liver in hot sauce

panfish:
slerpie minnows
twin tail grubs
grubs
meps spinners
panthermartin minnows

Salmon:
eggs
bomber spoons
1oz daredevils
krockodile spoons
flash bucktails

1.XPS lazer eye topwater bait.
2. Berkley flicker shad rattle n roll.
3 4 and 5 to be determined.

Bass: BANJO MINNOW, Husky Jerks all sizes, Rapala Shad Raps, Bill Dance Grass Frog, Texas rigged worm on surface of weed mats in August. EXPLOSIVE

Catfish: WHOLE LIVE SUCKERS, Cut Shad, Gut hooked river minnows from water you are fishing, Night Crawlers (lake fishing)

I have used the Banjo Minnow since it came out, I even have a separate tackle bag/box for them. Also a separate one for all my husky jerks. AND separate one for all my cat gear as well, Only take what I need. nothing more.

ZOOM Super FLukes, White Ice Pearl WHite and Disco Green

Rapala  X Rap CLown color

ZOOM Lizards watermelon candy

ZOOM Speed Craws

Rapala DT Cranks

Posted By fisherfanatic on 17 Jul 2010 12:45 AM
1. Original Floating or Jointed Rapala
2. Boyah Spinnerbait
2. Hoola Popper
3. Ribbed Plastic Worm
4. Rattle Trap
5. Boyah Jig

TIGHT LINES!

Dang!  I included #2 twice! 

1.Rapala clackin crank in rusty crawdad
2.Rapala X-Rap in silver
3.Rapala Shad rap in silver
4.Rapala X-Rap subwalk in clown
5.Rapala Skitter pop in Lime Frog

Zoom Super Fluke

Rapala DT

Rapala XRap

Rapal Original Floater

Heddon Baby Torpedo