#1) chartreuse grubs split shot
#2) silver willow leaf bladed chartreuse or chartreuse and blue spinner baits.
#3) small green crawdads near creeks
#4) light colored small frogs over lillies and on weedlines.
#5) Shad pattern crankbaits off cliffs with steep drop offs and also all around islands with rock clusters.
#6) tree stump lizard fishing as the bass move onto the bed to spawn
#7) chartreuse and green or blue jigs especially around thick cover
if you can locate a nest you can throw just about anything out there and the bass will attack it to protect it’s nest. i would throw a rattle trap. i have caught a lot of spring bass that way. the rattle is what makes the bass mad and makes it attack. i have also used plastic lizards along the bottom because they rob nests of eggs and the bass will attack to protect it’s eggs.
the most prevalent food naturally available in your area,where i live worms and nightcrawlers get washed into the watershed as soon as the frost is gone,as well as nymphs of all kinds of insects become more available and frog larvae(tadpoles) as the cold lessens and the waters warm,some species of fish have already spawned and the fry of them is evident in thick cover if you observe what is presently visable.That is what they eat…whatever is abundant,they aren’t picky.My personal favorite is called a jig and pig at this time because it’s big,and you can fish it so many ways effectively from the bottom depths to the shelf and also shallows slowly hopped up a ledge or drop off and wham!It consists of a bucktail or rubberskirted jig with a pork rind frog chunk impaled on the hook,I use black or blue or green depending on the clarity of the water and time of day or night I go.
1.) Texas rigged plastic worm.
2.) Double willow bladed spinnerbait.
3.) Minnow-type bait, such as a Rapala Floating Minnow.
4.) Crankbait, in shad color.
5.) Soft plastic lizard, frog, snake, etc. fished as a top-water.
Those would be the best.
Hope i helped ya out.
for live bait:
“spring lizards” (waterdogs) or crawdads.
otherwise, plastic worms are my own preference for spring/early spring. heck… for that matter, l use plastics all year long. l manage to hang into one now and then.
floating worm rig.
zoom trick worm
color: Pink, Limtruse for clear water dark water methanlate ( BRIGHT RED)
white spinner bait
mid day Shakey head rig
November 25th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
#1) chartreuse grubs split shot
#2) silver willow leaf bladed chartreuse or chartreuse and blue spinner baits.
#3) small green crawdads near creeks
#4) light colored small frogs over lillies and on weedlines.
#5) Shad pattern crankbaits off cliffs with steep drop offs and also all around islands with rock clusters.
#6) tree stump lizard fishing as the bass move onto the bed to spawn
#7) chartreuse and green or blue jigs especially around thick cover
November 25th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
if you can locate a nest you can throw just about anything out there and the bass will attack it to protect it’s nest. i would throw a rattle trap. i have caught a lot of spring bass that way. the rattle is what makes the bass mad and makes it attack. i have also used plastic lizards along the bottom because they rob nests of eggs and the bass will attack to protect it’s eggs.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:49 am
the most prevalent food naturally available in your area,where i live worms and nightcrawlers get washed into the watershed as soon as the frost is gone,as well as nymphs of all kinds of insects become more available and frog larvae(tadpoles) as the cold lessens and the waters warm,some species of fish have already spawned and the fry of them is evident in thick cover if you observe what is presently visable.That is what they eat…whatever is abundant,they aren’t picky.My personal favorite is called a jig and pig at this time because it’s big,and you can fish it so many ways effectively from the bottom depths to the shelf and also shallows slowly hopped up a ledge or drop off and wham!It consists of a bucktail or rubberskirted jig with a pork rind frog chunk impaled on the hook,I use black or blue or green depending on the clarity of the water and time of day or night I go.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:03 am
1.) Texas rigged plastic worm.
2.) Double willow bladed spinnerbait.
3.) Minnow-type bait, such as a Rapala Floating Minnow.
4.) Crankbait, in shad color.
5.) Soft plastic lizard, frog, snake, etc. fished as a top-water.
Those would be the best.
Hope i helped ya out.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:38 am
for live bait:
“spring lizards” (waterdogs) or crawdads.
otherwise, plastic worms are my own preference for spring/early spring. heck… for that matter, l use plastics all year long. l manage to hang into one now and then.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jig and pig combos, and plastic worms or lizards.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Plastic Lizard…because during this time a year the Bass are spawning and lizards are “Nest Robbers”…i also like to throw a spinner bait…
November 27th, 2009 at 12:53 am
floating worm rig.
zoom trick worm
color: Pink, Limtruse for clear water dark water methanlate ( BRIGHT RED)
white spinner bait
mid day Shakey head rig
November 27th, 2009 at 4:43 am
late winter, early spring in South Louisiana it’s spawning time.
lizards are my go to bait right now.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:12 am
plastic works,grubs,crawdads near shallows. Jigs too
November 27th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Are you talking salt water or freshwater?
November 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
i would have to say buzz baits