Spring Lures

[rowyourboat]

What are some of your top producing lures in the spring time?

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Spinnerbaits are a good bet for finding pre spawn pigs.Jigs worked slowly in cold water.Carolina rigs for covering a lot of water on dropoffs and flats near possible spawning areas. Suspending minnow baits such as the lucky craft pointer and rapala husky jerk are great too.Use long pauses in colder water.

Where are you from? :-? Maybe someone from your region can give you a direct answer.

Welcome to the forum and to bass fishing.

[Grey Wolf]

Welcome and have you read any of the great fishing articles they have here on fishing in the spring time.

[Catt]

Define Spring?

Spring down here is in April when all the best fishing is about over; now for our "Spawn/spring" fishing it starts now.

Top producing lures are pretty much the same year round just thrown in different location

Jig-N-Craw

Texas Rigged Plastic

Deep Cranks

Rat-L-Trap

Spinner Baits

[rowyourboat]

im from north-east Tennessee. I've fished all my life using live bait, but i recently got into artificial lures and im hooked. thanks for the tips, i'll have to give those a try when it warms up a bit

[central.PA.bass]

in Very Early Spring or you could even call it late winter (Mid March) I have had tons of success throwin a shallow running Storm Wiggle Wart in a chartreuse color (0-1ft.)   The smallies at my home lake love it!

[Wayne P.]

Add a Chatterbait to your arsenal for late Winter/early Spring.

[roadwarrior]

Choose techniques you like and fish your

favorite lures. Everything works in the spring

and early summer!

I like fishing hard jerkbaits, but if it's just about

"catching", soft plastics can't be beat. How 'bout

a lipless crankbait over and through emerging

vegetation?

Doesn't everyone like the topwater strike? This

class of lures may work just fine in other seasons

when the conditions are right, but springtime is

primetime!

[D.Cox]

Water temp 48-55 Jerk Baits, any that suspend 4-8 foot. Rouge, Luck Craft, Husky Jerks.

53 and up, Spinner Baits  and crank baits. Need bump botton or tree ect.

Jig with trailers are good any time.

Swim Baits any water above 52 deg.

Here in East Tenn, we do not have any grass in the water. Some of the other can work a times. If you are from Knoxville West, you may have grass. And Rattle Traps, chatter bait might be a good option.

[MALTESE FALCON]

1-Spinnerbaits

2-Lipless Crankbaits

3-Shallow Crankbaits

4-Jerkbaits

5-Soft Swimbaits

Falcon

[grimlin]

1-Spinnerbaits

2-Lipless Crankbaits

3-Shallow Crankbaits

4-Jerkbaits

5-Soft Swimbaits

Falcon

I need to get you addicted to tubes.... ;D

Tubes are my #1 Spring time bait.Followed by a rubber weedless jig with a medium size trailer of some sort.

[MALTESE FALCON]

Hey Matt, you sound like all my buddies. They all think I'm crazy for not fishing tubes. I use them in my canal, but once my boat is in the water, and I start fishing the lake, I'm just chucking-and-winding crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits. I fish some plastics in the lake, but not much. I'm too "Type A".

Falcon

[knap]

1)rapala x rap

2)salamanders

3)jig

4)spinnerbait

5)some kind of zoom worm.

[grimlin]

Hey Matt, you sound like all my buddies. They all think I'm crazy for not fishing tubes. I use them in my canal, but once my boat is in the water, and I start fishing the lake, I'm just chucking-and-winding crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits. I fish some plastics in the lake, but not much. I'm too "Type A".

Falcon

Hardbait kinda guy.I can respect that. You like cranking and staying busy. 8-)

[D4u2s0t]

well here, spring is just after the spawn, and the fish will eat anything in the water.

[Thad]

I'll add a soft jerkbait to the mix. It's a very versatile bait and shines for me during the spring.

[brushhoggin]

stanley ribbit

[basspimple]

spring is great for catching big females. most fish are shallow that time of year, so top waters like buzzbaits can realy be productive. I my self like soft plastics. worms, creature baits, craws, ect. all work wonders. try reading the articles on this site. very informative!

[nubasser]

i have the best luck on spinnerbaits,but as others have said lots of lures produce.

[Michigangler]

I need to get you addicted to tubes.... ;D

Tubes are my #1 Spring time bait.Followed by a rubber weedless jig with a medium size trailer of some sort.

Smallies and Largemouths likewise love tubes up here in Northern Michigan. My buddy and I slayed with them in mid summer.

[JKarbo214]

Brushhoggin,

I recently purchased the Stanley Ribbit, what hooks do you use with them and how do you rig them?