Spawn fishing lures

[Pondboss16]

What are some good lures to use during the bass spawn in the spring?

[5fishlimit]

Shaky head with a Zoom fluke, or a keitech fat impact. I prefer the sight flash color and use a red marker around the gill plate.

[SenkoGuru]

I use Rouge's, Rattletraps, Swim jigs, Super flukes, Football jigs all before they settle onto the bed. Once they settle in go to Zero Gravity Jig's, Senko's, Rage-craw's, Brushhog's, Sweet Beavers and Lizards

[RCCA]

Please tell me what a zero gravity jig is. Ten years ago I tried to put cork on my jigs to make them almost float for my shallow water lakes. If they have something better, I'd like to know about it. 

[Airman4754]

I use a big white spinnerbait most of the time. 

[pwahmy]

13 minutes ago, Little Fish.... said:

Please tell me what a zero gravity jig is. Ten years ago I tried to put cork on my jigs to make them almost float for my shallow water lakes. If they have something better, I'd like to know about it. 

A zero gravity jig is a brand of jig that has a very slow fall rate (1 foot per 3 seconds) opening up different avenues than that of a regular jig. Hope this clears things up. 

 

-Payton

[RCCA]

Thanks. I googled it. Ordered 6

[FloridaFishinFool]

Davy Hite says using a floating worm is a hot lure during spawn:

Hope floats for best bass bites

Davy Hite 
March 12, 2007

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Photo by DAN KIBLER

Davy Hite likes to use a floating worm for spawning bass during April.

 

This month, depending upon weather and what lake you’re fishing, you’re probably fishing for bass sometime around the spawn.

 

And that’s a perfect time to fish a floating worm.

A floating worm isn’t technically a topwater bait, but it’s close to it. You will get to see some ferocious strikes; a lot of fish will blow up on it, and you’ll at least to get to see most of the fish strike at it. Plus, it’s a great way to catch a lot of fish — plus some big fish.

I catch quality fish with a floating worm in all stages of the spawn, but you really do better with a floating worm than, say, a spinnerbait, when fish are at the peak of the spawn or postspawn.

In clear water, you can catch a lot of prespawn fish, and you can catch a lot of spawning or postspawn fish. It’s really just a good bait to use throughout the entire period.

You can fish a floating worm at just about any Carolinas lake; you can fish it in stained water, but it’s best in clear water. If I can drop a bubblegum worm down 18 inches and still see it, I’ll throw it. You just go down the bank and throw it. You’ll see most of the fish as they come out and take a whack at it.

Now, I’ll admit I do own some spinning rods, and a lot of people fish a floating worm with a spinning rod, but I don’t. I fish them on a 6- or 6 1/2-foot medium-action All-Star baitcasting rod with a Pfleuger Presidential reel, a bait-caster with a 6.3-to-1 retrieve ratio.

I use 12- to 14-pound Berkley Sensation mono because it’s extremely low stretch, which you need when you’re setting the hook on a fish that’s hit a floating worm.

If I need to make long casts, I’ll use the 6 1/2-foot rod; if I’m fishing somewhere I need more control, like fishing around a lot of willows or skipping it back under a dock, I’ll use the 6-footer. With either one, you can cover a lot of water.

You can rig a floating worm weedless or with the hook showing. Most of the time, I’m fishing it near some kind of cover, so I rig it weedless. When I do, I use a 3/0 Owner “J” hook. If I’m fishing it with the hook exposed, I’ll use a 3/0 Owner straight-shank hook.

About 90 percent of the time, I fish a floating worm with a little barrel swivel a foot or so up the line; that keeps line twist out and gives you a little more weight so it’ll cast better on a bait-caster.

Like most fishermen, when I’m fishing a floating worm, I’m using bright colors. It’s easier for me to see a bubblegum worm when I’m working it along, a foot or so under the surface, but I think the brighter colors are more effective for drawing strikes from bass.

I think it has to do with them being more aggressive because they’re going on the bed or protecting their fry, and I think the bright colors may trigger them a little. A floating worm doesn’t put out any kind of vibration, like a spinnerbait, so it’s a visual strike.

I’ll fish one of four colors 99 percent of the time: bubblegum, yellow, merthiolate or white.

If I’m fairly sure I’m going to be using a floating worm a lot, I’ll have all four colors rigged before I leave home. I’ll just start with one and keep trying them.

If I’m fishing with somebody else, I’ll start with one color and have them start with another, letting the fish decide what they want that day. And believe me, the color they want will change from day to day.

As far as action is concerned, I’ll let a floating worm sink just a little bit after I make my cast, then I’ll work it back the way I work a hard jerkbait or a stickbait. I’ll fish it with a twitch-twitch-pause action, and most of the time, they get it on the pause.

You’ll catch a lot of fish using a floating worm just going down the bank because there are so many fish shallow. But the real draw for me is that you’ll catch a lot of big fish.

They’re in there to spawn, and a floating worm just does something to trigger them into striking.

It’s a great bait.

[Pondboss16]

 

1 hour ago, SenkoGuru said:

I use Rouge's, Rattletraps, Swim jigs, Super flukes, Football jigs all before they settle onto the bed. Once they settle in go to Zero Gravity Jig's, Senko's, Rage-craw's, Brushhog's, Sweet Beavers and Lizards

Is there a specific color u like to use for these lures? 

[BaitMonkey1984]

This time of year I will throw a natural predator to bass eggs or a bait that can stay in the strike zone for extended periods of time. Natural predators like a lizard texas rigged is good. A jig or a shaky head that can he be moved a fraction of an inch at a time with some good undulation allow you to anger the bass into striking.  

[SenkoGuru]

23 hours ago, Little Fish.... said:

Please tell me what a zero gravity jig is. Ten years ago I tried to put cork on my jigs to make them almost float for my shallow water lakes. If they have something better, I'd like to know about it. 

The Zero gravity jig is a game changer during the spawn. I have landed some monster bass with those. With the right trailer you can make that jig fall so slow that it is almost sitting still. The bass can't say no to it floating in their face. I throw a Bream colored during the spawn or sometime a black & blue with a purple trailer in stained water and it is a great bait.

 I stick with more natural colors like Green Pumpkin, Watermelon, Bream, if the water is stained I'll go to a Black & Blue or Junebug, If I am sight fishing I fish a white color soft plastic so I can see the fish take the bait. I like red colored rattletraps this time of year, like Toledo Gold,  Rayburn Red Craw, Red Craw. I hope this helps you.

[RCCA]

Thanks Guru