Poll: What's your top 3 summertime lures?

If you were only allowed to bring along 3 lures for fishing summertime in Texas, what would you choose? I'll start it off:
Buzzbait for early morning, Carolina worm for later and deeper, Neko for skunk prevention.

Please respond with yours.

Tim

Football Jig
DD crankbait
Weighted Swimbait

All in 20-35 FOW

Tx rigged ol monster
6xd
Spook

drop shot
wacky worm
pop r

I like your finesse selection. With the handle of Dropshot King, I guess you'd better have drop shot in the list

It definitely depends on the lake, but for the lakes I've been fishing lately....

1/2 oz flipping rig
1 oz flipping rig
Frog

Square bill
Wacky worm
C-rig

Drop shot
Football jig
Big worm

10” Power Worm, Frog, Weighted swim bait with willow underspin

Victory jig 5/8oz in a green color
Big crank
c-rig

Spook,Wacky Jig and Biffle Bug with a swing head

TX rig
under spin
plopper

squarebill
chatterbait
Carolina rig

I'm sure I would want a topwater at times but if its limited to just 3 lures I wouldn't use the topwater much past the first couple hours.

Yep, the topwater limits your timing and usage more than the others on your list. I'd be interesting to put out a spreadsheet of votes to see which ones come out as the "favorite" of this community.

T-rig oil monster, jig, c-rig. Can’t find a consistent top water bite right now

Football jig
Big worm
Spoon

Frog
Jig
Crankbait

Deep crank
3/4oz swim jig
Big spoon

Frog
Punch rig
Various swimbaits

3/8 oz. Crig. with Baby Brush Hog
1/8 oz. Short Crig. with Fluke
Custom Spook in Flash Shad

10" Power Worm T-Rig
Jig
C-Rig

Frog, buzzbait, c rigged lizard.

Walking topwater bait, jig, and worm

1. 1/8 t-rig black Power Craw w/chartreuse pinchers (or Wacky Craws if you have any)
2. big all black buzzbait
3. big Colorado blade (copper) spinnerbait
ALL Night Long ...,

#1 by far, C-Rig
#2, 5 and 6xd
#3, can’t narrow it down, but early morning is a spook, I always throw in a Tx rig senko or Ol monster, plus a football jig or spoon.

Frog, Jig, Texas-Rig 10" Worm/ Craw.

Frog, Jig, Texas-Rig 10" Worm/ Craw.

3/8s oz Yellow Magic Plus 1;
DD 22
C-rig

Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

C-rigged Brush Hog
Donkey-rigged flukes
Weightless wacky Ocho

C rigged Bubble Fry
Hollow Body Swimbait on a 1/2 oz jighead
Deep Crank

Big crank
Jig
C-Rig

Wow, great list. I will compile this, and maybe I'll go with the top 3 from this list this weekend....

Early in the day Yellow Magic or Squarebill
XD5 or 6
Jig
Depending on the lake, a big Flutter spoon or 10” worm

10 inch worm
C-rig
Jig

10" Lake Fork Tackle Worm TX-Rig
Lucky Craft 2.5 Square Bill
Drop Shot 4" Zoom worm

SPOOK

SQ. BILL

TX. RIG WORM

1-Electro fish shocker
2- Rotenone
3- TNT
In that order. One of these should produce results.

Ha, yes I should have been more clear "US Legal"

This has been an interesting poll. I can tell from the answers who fishes mainly deep and who fishes mainly shallow this time of year.

Do you happen to wear pants when you fish in the summer? Do said pants have at least 7 pockets on them?

NIGHT:
Black 10-12" worm
Black single-spin
Black jig & pork eel
DAY:
5" Senko
Buzz bait
Frog
Lipless crankbait or big, deep worm (tie)

xd10
Carolina rig ten inch worm
1.5 ounce

1. Carolina rig watermelon French fry
2. DD22 Chartreuce blue back
3. Heavy rig drop shot with brush hog
Gotta throw a whopper plopper for the 1st 45 minutes though...

Deep crank
C-Rig
Jig

Good observation. I find it very interesting that the Neko and Ned are not mentioned..... yet.

Tim

Have prob missed a selection or mis-categorized it but so far-

Topwater(including frog)- 20
Texas rig(including punching)- 17
Carolina rig- 17
Jig- 15
Deep crank- 13
Swim baits- 5

drops off a lot after that.

light c-rig
weighted small swim bait
square bill


I wish a popper, a frog, a whooper-plopper.

Plastic worm.
Crankbait.
Lead spoon.

Whopper Plopper 130, Spro Popping Frog, Senko and then off the water by 10 am.