Confidence bait

 Whats your favorite lure?  The one you almost always have on no matter what?  I love the two smallest sizes of husky jerks in silver/black.  I have a buddy that almost exclusivly throws a #4 aglia in red and white.  No bucktail.  Whats yours?

1/8 oz jig with a 4 inch creme worm. snap jigging.

A small soft plastic, especially a mister twister grub. I will not go fishing without that lure. I've been fishing that simple lure throughout my entire life and its still one of my favorite and most used lures. It literally effectively catches almost everything and its so versatile. All the panfish and bass absolutely love them. They work great for walleye, and pike hit them often too. I've caught little trout on them, and even hooked up a steelhead once, and I don't fish for trout often or am very good at it. You can rig it a few different ways, with a jig head, weedless, dropshot, etc. You can jig it if the fish are deep, cast and retrieve it if the fish are hyped and active, work it slow on the bottom if the fish are finicky or slow, rig it weedless and fish it right in the weeds, etc. You won't be able to do all of this or catch as many species of fish with a crankbait, jerkbait, spoon, spinner, etc. The lure is a MUST have in the tacklebox.

#11 origal rapala black and gold for stained water.

Out on the cranberry marsh I would throw a gold #5 Mepps Aglia red/ yellow, plain hook. All kinds of fish would come up and have a taste.

For gamefish and larger pannies, a home-made black beetle spin.  It catches everything.  I'll always throw this lure first and let the others try other things.  By the end of the day they are throwing these and I am experimenting.  

It depends on what I'm fishing for.  If it's bass or northern I throw a chartreuse and white tandem willow blade spinnerbait.  For panfish a roadrunner jig tipped with either a minnow for crappie or wax worm for bluegill.