Winning Patterns in 2010

[Swede]

I've always enjoyed reading BassFan's annual article regards winning patterns on the professional tour for a given year.  Interestingly, winning patterns rarely remain consistent from year to year.  According to the linked BassFan article - Cranking and Flipping/Pitching were the two dominant patterns in 2009.

http://www.bassfan.com/news_article.asp?id=3504

How many of you also call one of these or both of these patterns your winning patterns from this past year?  If one of these two patterns was not your primary winning pattern - what was your winning pattern most of the time?  What do you think will be the winning patterns in 2010?

[coldfront]

seeing as how I didn't win a single tourney last year...I figured I needed to find something to put me around bigger fish...and started working harder toward the end of the seaon on cranking deep running plugs...mainly normans...and started finding bigger fish...

unfortunately none of them showed in tournaments...


I'm looking forward to the responses...Great thread Swede...

[NateG]

My 3 tournament wins came on a drop shot(2) and a wacky rigged senko(1). I guess you'd say my winning pattern would be "finesse fishing".  I gained a lot of confidence in power fishing- spinnerbaits and rattletraps, though I didn't cash a check in the tournaments where I caught them like this.

[stock28]

I don't fish tournaments, but my best patterns were pitching during the hot months along with cranks and then a lot of cranks in the late fall and early winter until the water got hard.

[wvbassangler]

My 3 tournament wins came on a drop shot(2) and a wacky rigged senko(1). I guess you'd say my winning pattern would be "finesse fishing".  I gained a lot of confidence in power fishing- spinnerbaits and rattletraps, though I didn't cash a check in the tournaments where I caught them like this.

Thanks Im going to try that wacky drop shot 

[iClass]

Pitching jigs won both of my tournaments, and I actually caught some of my biggest bass last year on "Heavy Finese rigs" 

I was Pitching a 7" hand poured laminated El Grande Mexi stick that was wacky rigged on 17lb Berkley Vanish Flourocarbon fished weightless.  Fishing along the edges of grasslines this technique was deadly for me.  

Although I didn't win these tournaments I still had decent sacks (26 lbs was tough for me to catch...I have never caught 26 lbs with 5 fish. )

[Homerthumper]

I've won several tournaments in 2009 fishing skinny water that nobody else dared to go. I had to raise my gas motor completely out of the water and raise my trolling motor very high to get in these areas, but it payed off with a B.A.S.S. Qualifier win and several open money tournament wins. As for your question on which pattern will do the best in 2010, I think it will be swimbaits, they really catch alot of big fish. 

[OCBassman]

The Co-Angler I won I was Flipping a crazy legs chigger craw in heavy weeds.

[Swede]

Here are a couple of the successes I had in 2009;

January - used V&M black grape finesse worm, 1/8 oz Parasite Weight - fishing wood in a local river for win.
February/March - used Zoom Ultra-Vibe, 3/16oz Parasite Weight for 4th and 7th place finishes in FL Federation events.
April - Bandit CB, V&M Bayou Bullfrog, and Zoom Ultra-Vibe for 3rd place finish.
June - Bandit and Rapala CBs for tourney win.
August - used V&M black grape 4" Ringer, 1/8oz Parasite Weight and Bandit CB for 3rd place finish.
October - used Zoom Ultra-Vibe for 4th place finish in ABA event.
December - used Rapala CB and Johnson Silver Minnow for 2nd place finish.

Looks like Worms and CBs were my go-to baits in 2009.  I expect the same in 2010.  I'm guessing the winning strategies for the professionals will be similar to 2009 as well.

[BPSTRATOS]

Academy H20 "woops"y shad wake bait. Worked good in clear water and bright sunny days. 7:1 gear ratio reel cranking pretty fast. Made me a believer.