Im sick of winter so Im shifting towards open water–Curious IF you could only equip your box with 5 lures–What would they be? Color excluded–you can have as many diff colors as you would like! But size matters–and live bait is excluded as well.
Me-Id Go
#5 Shallow Shad Raps
#7 Shad Raps
VMC Moon Eye Jigs
BFN Pulsar PaddleTail Soft plastics
Lindy Rigs with a floater
Walleyes
Unpainted jig
BFN Paddletails
#6 Rippin Rap
#9 Husky Jerk
Spinner/crawler harness rig
That’s all I need.
Im More of a Bass/Musky guy
Bass:
1/2 ounce jig
punch rig
xrap
spinnerbait
rage craws
Musky:
Showgirl
cowgirl
lake x topwater
crank bait
bar fighter
Give me a 5 of diamonds spoon and a jointed Rapala and i’ll take my chances for the day.
I’ll cheat a little but strict otherwise. Live bait rigs are not considered lures but I’ll keep this to 5 including both pike and walleye
#8 Shad Raps
#12 deep husky jerk
#14 shallow husky jerk
1oz daredevil
Mepps giant killer bucktail(it’s the willow bladed one)
I lied, need one more:
Bfishn H2O jig with smaller Moxie plastics
Could and have spent all week in Ontario with this set. Still bring about 30 pounds more crap but amazing how often it goes back to this same list.
#7 Berkley Flicker Shad
#5 Salmo Hornet
#6 Salmo Bullhead SDR
#7 Rapala Tail Dancer
#9 Rapala Jigging Rap
1/8 ounce jig
# 5 SR
#5 Jointed SR
#5 jigging rap
Ringworm
#9 deep tail dancer
#8 husky jerk (or #8 x-rap either one)
1/8 jig
BFN paddletail
Rippin Rap 5
#1) 1/4 oz plain leadhead w red lazer hook
2) Berkley 3″ Twitchtail
3) Shad Rap #5
4) Husky Jerk #7
5 Kastmaster for ice fishing.
nightcrawlers
leeches
sucker minnows
shiners
fatheads
Okay, I cheated. I’ll kill them just before I dunk them.
1/8 oz jig
Smithwick rattling rouge floater
#7 taildancer
Bucher shallow raider
Spinner Crawler harness rig
#7 Shad Rap
1/8 oz jig
1/4 oz jig
3/8 oz jig
crawler harness
Pretty much describes my open water arsenal…
#5 purpledescent jointed shad rap
Black and yellow beetle spin with silver blades
1/4 oz vmc live bait jigs
4” purple/chart moxie
1 oz black and silver rattle trap
Covers walleye, pike, bass, pannies.
In the spirit of this I didn’t want to go species specific.
1/8 ounce jig
1/4 ounce jig
Small plain hook
Large plain hook
Mepps spinner
Bass guy with chances at others
wacky worm
spinner bait
rattle trap
Jig and paddle plastic
blade bait
Bass guy
Chatterbait
Ned rig
Punch/flipping bait
Wacky rig
Neko rig
#5 ripping rap
#7 jigging rap
#9 jigging rap
#9 jigging rap
#9 jigging rap
#7 Shad Rap
#11 Original Minnow
#7 Tail Dancer
3/16oz jig
Berkley Gulp Minnow
shad rap silver/black
mepps spinner with hair
daredevle fire tiger
spinnerbait white
flu flu jig pink and white
Flicker shad
Taildancer
Husky jerk
Orginal floater
Rippin rap
Being that it’s ice fishing season I’ll applaud the versatility and reliability of VMC Tingler spoons. Since using them more the last two winters I’ve caught everything from walleye to northern to perch and other panfish.
Jig
Spinnerbait
Senko
Ned Rig
Jerkbait
No stone left unturned, largemouth or smallmouth.
Jig
Ringworm
Paddletail
Husky
#1 on list though, hook line and sinker
I’m primarily a river guy.
#5 shad rap (silver and black)
#7 flicker shad (firetiger)
Crawler harness
1/4oz vmc jig
#7 jointed shad rap (blue)
Banjo Minnow
Helicopter Lure
Mighty Bite
S.O.B. (Self Orbiting Bait)
The Flying Lure
Jig head and twister tail.
1/8 oz, 1/4 oz, And 3/8 oz.
f11 rapala
Mini mite jig
Maybe I’d swap out the 1/4 oz jig for a plain red hook and sinker.
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