What are your 5 most productive lures?

[yakfisher]

I'm putting together a small pike and a bass kit that I can easily take and cast from my kayak. I have my ideas for top baits, but I'm looking to compile a nice easily transportable kit for fishing mostly smaller metro waters for pike. I usually take a 6'6" M spinning rod and a 7' MH casting rod. I'll be making a similar post on the bass tread. What are your thoughts? If you only had 5 baits to choose, what would you take?

[JP Z]

1. Spinnerbait -White or White Chartreuse

2. Rattle bait - Blue Chrome

3. Chatterbait

4. Swimbait with a jighead. Much like the Yum Money Minnow etc.

5. X-rap (although using a jerkbait from a kayak may be a pain in the rear.)

6. Jigworm....I always seem to catch a bunch of pike while trying to catch bass on the weedlines in the summer.

[hookncook]

3/8 oz PK FLutter Fish nickel

Bombshell turtle

buzz bait

scum frog (the cheaper the better)

hologram crank bait

[Mastercaster]

1. 1/2 ounce Yellow Spinner bait

2. 1/2 ounce Yellow Spinner bait

3. 1/2 ounce Yellow Spinner bait

4. 1/2 ounce Yellow Spinner bait

5. Matts Lure East Coast Series perch swim bait

[solbes]

1) White spinner bait

2) Green Scum Frog

3) Silver Shad Rap 7 or 8

4) Johnson silver minnow tipped with plastic

5) Gold Hot-n-Tot, 1/4 oz

[20lbSloughShark]

1oz hot mackerel dardevle

6" firetiger jake (not sure about in a kayak, I troll it mostly)

Booyah Pikee red craw spinnerbait (most others get torn to shreds)

5 1/4" gold rapala x-rap walk

12" leader, big bobber, and a 3/0 circle hook for big suckers

I can honestly say I have never caught a northern pike on a buzzbait. When I do use them, its for bass, and I am in very shallow less than 3'. Topwater for pike for me means something 4"-10" long and can be retreived slowly in a "walk the dog" style. Topwater for me has been either nothing, or the very best bite. Never got a big one though.

[WasteManagement]

#1 Medium Johnson Silver Minow

#2 Large Johnson Silver Minow

#3 Small Johnson Silver Minow

#4 Anything for bass fishing when not using a leader

#5 Red and White

When i fish up north in very dirty lakes, all i use is a silver minow. Never had the joy of fishing in clear water.

[JBMasterAngler]

In no particular order...

1) rattle trap (usually a color that resembles a rock bass)

2) pike colored flat rap

3) pike colored jointed rapala

4) spinnerbait, color probably doesn't matter, but I use orange/yellow/brown mostly

5) buzzbait

[Gordie]

1.red/white spoons

2.chartuse and red spoons

3.chartuse spinner baits

4.Johnson silver minnow tipped with plastics/frog imitations

5.floating rapalas

[eyeguy 54]

only 5?? I'd stay home

[mainbutter]

1) crankbait - by far caught more pike in my lifetime on various rapalas than anything else. I always have a crankbait on my spinning rod so that I can paddle-troll from spot to spot when I'm in my canoe.

2) boot-tail soft swimbait. The only reason it's not #1 in lifetime catches is because I didn't start using them until the past few years.

3) Senko.. a seriously underrated esox bait. Put it near a northern or musky, and it'll eat.

4) inline spinner with a dressed treble. I've never done as well with spinnerbaits as I have with inline spinners. One blade, two blade, willow leaf, colorado, all colors and sizes, I've caught pike on 'em. They are great for calling in fish from a distance and covering square footage of a large fishable area.

5) spoon, preferably a dardevle. It's a classic, works and will always work.

[yakfisher]

Thanks for posting everyone. I've had the most luck with a white or chartreuse spinner followed by shad raps and inline spinners. Most of my metro fishing is in lakes with lots of weeds so I tend to use a spinner to start and raps after I get a handle on the weed line locations. Its been great learning what others prefer. I hqve definitely learned some things.

[rockman]

1) Big tandem blade spinnerbaits

2) Dardevle spoons- red & white, firetiger

3) In line buzzer- black bucktail skirt

4) Johnson silver minnow- 1/2 oz. and bigger with a trailer on the hook

5) Single blade spinnerbait with no skirt, and a sucker minnow on the hook

[Driftless]

Second largest Little Cleo.,,,nickel

Rattletrap...sliver with blue back..second biggest

size 13 jointed rapala....gray or brown

size 11 deep diving shad rap robins egg blue

size 11 rattling rogue...silver and blue

Have never caught a pike on a johnson's silver minnow.

[Savage Brewer]

Hmm

#3 Blue Fox Vibrax spinner (usually silver)

#4 Blue Fox Vibrax spinner chartruse

#6 Blue Fox Vibrax spinner firetiger with black bucktail

Medium sized Storm Lures Hot-N-Tot with rattle or "Rattle-Tot"

Assorted color 3" power grubs.

I am also working up a smaller selection for canoe and kayak fishing.

I garuntee there will be at least a dozen Vibrax's in there.

[yak12]

Better late than never, so here it goes!

1) White or Yellow HD Spinnerbait

2) Bright Yellow Mepps with Rooster Tail

3) Jointed Rapala, Perch color (any size)

4) Any sort of Top Water "walk the dog" type bait

5) Chartreuse Fire Tiger Rapala

I also fish from a kayak, and carry a small amount of tackle. I've got one box for bass and pike, one for pan fish, and one for terminal tackle. Plus so misc. Soft Baits thrown into my milk crate!

Good Luck!

[SledNeck]

1. Booyah Buzzbait

2. Booyah Buzzbait

3. Booyah Buzzbait

4. Booyah Buzzbait

5. Booyah Buzzbait