Plastic Bait Favorites

What types of plastic baits are effective for ocean and jetty fishing? 
Does anyone have favorites that they are willing to divulge??

Lancer Jigs kill.
Also recent success with 2" Gulp Minnow in black/white on jetty micro-rockfish.

Besides Lancer I like the Gulp Nuclear Chicken

All of the Gulp saltwater baits.
6 inch pink and white grub, nuclear chicken, and white.

Besides Lancer I like the Gulp Nuclear Chicken

grub, minnow, mullet, paddle tail   Size preference?

If I go with the traditional setup..
6 inch grub on the bottom, then a couple of the 3 inch mullets in place of the shrimp flies.

I am a believer in the Gulp baits.  I've seen them out fish regular plastics 5 to 1.

Besides Lancer I like the Gulp Nuclear Chicken

grub, minnow, mullet, paddle tail   Size preference?

Oops, sorry for not being specific...yes the Grub 6" swim baits

http://www.amazon.com/Berkley-GSG6-NCH-Nuclear-Chicken-6-Inch/dp/B000TXQBEM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464024382&sr=8-1&keywords=berkley+nuclear+chicken

Big Hammers
Little Hammers
Sledge Hammers

I have had great success with several of the Cabelas brand "Go To Fishermans Series" swim baits designed for bass in the 4, 5 and 6" size.  They are super cheap, wiggle like crazy, and are like crack for black rocks, cabbies and lings. Some of the baits look like swim baits, others look like a fish with a long paddle tail.  Love these baits.

Don't overlook Bass creature baits.  I've had some amazing days on the salt using Brush Hawgs on a 3oz jig head.  There are a ton of different body styles and colors available.  They don't last as long as some of the dedicated salt plastics but they're a heck of a lot cheaper and have more variety.

-Mark-

Yup. Love the 6" Gulp Saltwater Grubs! But big jigs are tricky to fish off the jetties without loosing lots of gear. I tend to have more success fishing bait (clams, shrimp, squid, etc.) from the rocks/jetties and catch a more diverse range of fish. ie, you aren't going to catch a perch fishing a 6" grub  with a 7/0 jig hook. Out in the big blue is a different story, but depends on what I am targeting also. Curly tail grubs, scampi and swimbait shapes in all sizes work great. I've even been very successful with putting hootchies on a jig head.

Fish-Field has their own line and they seem much more durable than other brands I have used. I caught a 37 inch ling on one a couple weekends ago, and then I had some other big sea creature straighten out my stainless snap swivel on one of their really large sized (9 inch) swim baits. Sadly that one is now gone. I will be buying more. I did modify them by cutting off the heads so they would fit my jig heads better. http://fishfield.com/130-swimbaits

Let's not forget lancer jigs I have cought many a lingcod on lancer jigs.

cutting off the heads

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Fish-Field has their own line and they seem much more durable than other brands I have used. I caught a 37 inch ling on one a couple weekends ago, and then I had some other big sea creature straighten out my stainless snap swivel on one of their really large sized (9 inch) swim baits. Sadly that one is now gone. I will be buying more. I did modify them by cutting off the heads so they would fit my jig heads better. http://fishfield.com/130-swimbaits

Do you use a trailer/stinger hook on the 9 inchers? I won the Fish Field prize package at ORC last year. Havent gotten around to using any of them yet.

I put a stinger on all of them. I just barely stick it through the "skin" on the tail. Just remember, it counts as one of your three separate hooks. So, I only use one shrimp fly. I would rather increase my odds at a ling than do a bunch of catch and release on 14 inch rockfish.