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Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
Another thread inspired this....I'm interested to see what your favorite overall, all around bait is for catching fish.....Let me know if I left anything out.....Thanks for your participation in advance.  Feel free to comment on your favorite baits, presentations and/or species fished for. My favorite are these  for these 
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 15:14:01
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I voted for flies, because you asked all time "favorite", not most effective.  I have such a hard time with these polls. I just can't pick one. All time favorite would actually be, dry flies, or any surface lure. I couldn't vote for "topwater" because that would kind of leave flies out of it. But just to be sure, when I voted for flies, I sure as heck wasn't referring to a sucker spawn, or anything hanging from a bobber/strike indicator.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 15:56:23
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Live bait never know what your going to catch.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 16:13:12
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Went with plastics... year round, all species, just doesn't matter. Always effective. Although since picking up a boat, crankbaits are gaining some affection!
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 16:20:56
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My favorite all time lure would have to be the metal lipped, smaller size Hot 'n Tot. I love to troll and I've caught so many fishing in numerous places trolling Hot 'n Tots that lure has sentimental meaning to me. Fishing in Erie, I don't use Hot 'n Tots anymore, but I'm still a finatic about that lure. A few years back when they discontinued the old style, I was buying then like they were going out of style (which they were at the time). Now, I have a whole box full of brand new Hot 'n Tots at home. I gotta have at least 50 to 100 of them. I don't know why, but I'll never part with them. The Hot 'n Tots along with my Down East rod holders (that I also never use) and my 1980 Garcia ABU bait caster are very dear to me.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 16:37:22
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Flies, but i like using the other stuff too.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 16:51:06
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I have to say flies are my favorite, especially when fishing for steelies, but my most productive are Rapalas. They are lean, mean fish catching machines!!!! Gotta love the Rap's..... 
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 17:46:57
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I am with bug on this one. I also love topwater. Nothing like watching a bass take one of those.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 17:57:33
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I voted for flies but only because there wasn't an "all of the above" button.... 
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 18:47:01
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 #1 Have a relaxing time drifting with jig & fatheads catching eyes! Top-waters are awesome seeing them get "SMACKED"! Rapala's, "hang on cause somethings gonna try to rip the rod from you". Cripe sakes, they're all FUN!!!!!!!!!!
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 21:18:17
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Tough call but I have to go with jigs...Vib-E's straight up and down.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 21:26:47
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Gentlemen,
Flies, or anything that can be fished on a fly rod. I will use live bait or a fly/waxie combo but the rod is almost always a fly rod. 2d choice is a noodle rod and I'll even fish a weighted fly on one of those. Trust me guys, if you have ever had a medium sized pike smack a streamer when you were fishing for big trout... Don't stay on long but while they are on.. Yee.Haaaa! Ronnie, I think the fly is dry by now.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/12 22:13:13
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Very difficult question to answer with just a word or two. Tooooo many variations and styles/types of fishing to consider. Anything from lazy summer carp and cat fishin', Lg and Sm mouth bass to consider with a fly rod or light spinning gear to different kinds of toothy critters that chase wiggling plugs, not to mention steel from a boat near shore or a fly rod on one of the tribs and then there are those tasty silver slabs in early spring. I love it all.
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/13 01:00:41
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nvr hapens duud
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/13 08:16:25
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im pretty sure you guys know my answer...flies
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RE: Your personal ALL TIME Favorite Bait Style
2007/04/13 13:04:49
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