When does pre spawn in Va start?

[Jkt23113]

And also what is the best lure to use besides football jigs 

[Sam]

When the dogwood trees bloom the bass are on their beds.

 

Watch the dogwood trees as they create their buds and figure it out based on moon phases and water temperatures.

 

As for baits, plastics dragged slowly through the beds work very well.

 

Creature baits, lizards, trick worms, finesse worms, brush hogs, tubes, Senkos, and the plastics of your choice.

[Darren.]

Yup, what @Sam said. Pretty much clockwork with the 

dogwood trees...and the plastics.

[All about da bass]

If it imitates a craw, throw it. Crawfish are the most active bait around pre spawn. Throw blue gill colored things around and in the beds when they spawn. Bass hate blue gill and will eat them even if it means savin them babies.