Whether its feeding the line off a lindy, feeling that weight then WHAM!, or the splash of a topwater, or the little tip tap of a jig then fast and furious hookset, what is everybodys favorite?? That weight on the end of your rod on the initial hookup is almost a drug to me.
Trolling Shallow water Crank Baits 
Vertical jig and plastic…plink hookset fish on and repeat 
Top water…fly rod bugs and Bass, right at first light.
Musky/northern hit on top water jerk baits, when the water is calm and the sun just coming up/down.
Al
Its got to be the concussion you get when a flathead hammers a bullhead. You can wait hours or days for that, so when it happens, it is jarring.
#10 Crazy Charlie in the dead of a Minnesota winter. 150 yards of backing gone in seconds….
Shallow plastics bite is a hoot anticipation for the thunk and then destroy em with a hook set. Although getting bit while fishing a 5-8 in chub has a way of sending blood to certain parts of my body as well kind of like a blue pill date. 
. Ya can’t help but think how big is this eye that just clamped on.
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#10 Crazy Charlie in the dead of a Minnesota winter. 150 yards of backing gone in seconds….
This one is on the bucket list!
All of the above!!
The tick when your snap jigging is favorite hit and set.
Ajs
Holding the rod while trolling or three-waying and the fish just SLAMS the lure almost ripping the rod out of your hands
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All of the above!!
Well, obviously.
My second favorite bite might be short lining carp. Fishing on a bank only a few yard out mean you better pay attention or no more pole.
When the bobber goes down on Lake Mendota and you set hook and the fish doesn’t move or goes the other way. that few seconds when the bobber goes down and you genly take up slack knowing it is a big hoss. truly though the best bite by far is the next one…
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Light jig + 4″ plastic = awesome walleye hits! That would be my #1 favorite.
Someway I need to be able to add this to the memory banks.
My jig fishing is about as accurate as a certain Vikings QB. 
It just that when I do accidently hook one with a jig, it feels like they are sucking it in with a straw.
I want THUNK!
pitching or steady retrieve casting with some sort of plastic and feeling a walleye just thunk it and sending a big hookset has to be my favorite. just something about the walleyes hit a plastic bait.
The second you realize you are hooked up good with 60+ inch sturgeon!
-J.
Only one thing better than a fat walleye slamming a crank, is jigging a minnow for hammerheads! 
My fav would be vertical jigging but coaxing an eye along on a lindy is pretty cool.
Second would be any great lake action that makes the reel clicker scream.
Fishing bullheads for flats and picking up a screaming clicker run, set the hook, and the rod stops halfway up. Is it next summer now?
The 10 O’clock hook set is something that has to be experienced!
‘Course when Stuart set the hook on a flat and it brought him to his knees, that was pretty awesome as well!
You cant beat trolling raps at 2 MPH and having a walleye almost rip the rod out of your hand.
For Me it HAS to be a “Graboid” as I call it. Lindy Riggin’ and I feel dead weight for a second and a WHOOOM headshake turn of a walleye. It’s that anticipation of whether or not it’s bottom or a weed but I’m not sure. The bang leaves no doubt!
A close second would be trolling shallow water #5raps at night. Todododododododo not much going on and BANG! Love that too.
Has to be ice fishing for aggressive crappies in deeper water. Watching them fly up from the depths as the jig drops and then all of a sudden the line goes slack-then ya hammer ’em!
I love them all…But I had about a 48″ Musky explode a bass frog a few years back. The most vicious strike I have ever experienced in fresh water so far.
Oh I have another more subtle one. When lifting a plastic worm or jig and letting it fall back to the bottom, you realize something grabbed it on the drop and is swimming sideways or toward you. You rear back and there isn’t much give.
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