All species of fish will bite a jig. What size and style I couldnt choose just 1.

SCARBOO

1) Coyote spoon in the Funky Chicken color pattern. Good for chinook and coho.

2) 602 tomic plug in a 5 or 6" version - deadly for kings.

3) #5 Mepps spinner with a brass blade and a brown bucktail. Not necessarily useful out here but I caught a bunch of northerns on those in Wisconsin in my youth and they still hold a special place in my heart.

4) Rapala mag 20 in the purple/black color pattern. Deadly for tuna.

Hard to beat a silver and green krocodile spoon.

My all-time favorite lure is the #6 vibrax. Just for all the memories I have made with one on the end of my line. I have to start my yearly spinner rehab program in the next few weeks. Usually, there is a hoochie attached as well.

Rocket, that second pic gives me inspiration, but the third & fourth are worth their weight in gold! Awesome pics of the kid!

Green pirate tadpolly. works as a steelhead killer (summer and winter), springer bait, bait diver, casted coho plug, trolled coho plug at CQ, and it's even caught numerous king mackeral in FLA when i ran out of rapalas to troll.

Whatever I caught a twenty pound steelhead on yesterday.

(usually a spoon or a worm!)

Fish on...

Todd

Clouser Minnow! Everything eats a clouser.

Green spatterback hootchie

When I was a kid it was a spotted red u-20 flatfish. I plunked on the cowlitz a hundred yards from our house. Before I knew better it was the only plug I used. It caught winter steelhead, springers, summer steelhead, fall kings, coho and harvest trout (redneck src). Though not used much anymore, it has accounted for a good chunk of the fish I have killed. Just don't get off plunking anymore.

Green and blue pirates are in my top also.

All time favorite.......50/50 weighted Canadian Wonder. They quit making them (at least I could no longer find them) about the time the old yaller W&M 7 1/2 foot rod went away. Can't begin to count the numbers of steelhead that fell to those spoons.

Metalic whirly glo

Ace Hi Flys
Have been good for a fishin trip or two...

I miss my grandpappy's original Pearl Wobblers. Lost the last one about 15 years ago. Deadly for shallow silver trolling.

Pt. Wilson Dart, specifically the old school greens and blues that they haven't offered in 20 years, I've got 1 left and will probably shed a tear or 2 when I lose it.

Size 3 Silver Mepps Spinner

Feathers: #6 cone head woolly bugger, peacock body and black everything else. I've caught just about everything on this fly. Of course, it's mostly a trout fly, but steelhead, coho, and chinook (to name a few of significance) have all fallen victim. Not the most glamorous fly (heck, with the cone head it's practically a jig), but deadly, easy to tie, and adaptable to myriad presentations.

Overall: Blue body Vibrax spinner. Just has a way of finding the chromers. I have been fishing Rvrfshr spinners in copper and silver quite a bit this summer, and I have caught a wide variety of species on them. I think the weighted bodies are a good thing. Can't wait to try fish4brains's formula for Chehalis coho this fall; I have a sneaking suspicion it just might dethrone the blue Vibrax with pink hootchie. We shall see....

I know this is more of a salmon/steelhead site, but I grew up fishing jigs in the midwest. A 1/8 ounce jig head with a 3 inch white twister tail is about the most versatile lure in the world. Chinook, steelhead, pinks, coho, chum, rockfish in my time out here, but also solid for walleyes, large and smallmouth bass, northern pike, crappies, bull bluegills, channel and flathead catfish, rainbows and browns, perch...not sure there is a more versatile lure on the planet.

Zzinger. Not much it wont catch.