Colder Water, Whats Working For You?

[Dean]

I fish a variety of ponds in western Massachusetts, haven't caught anything yet, but I will. Just curious to what everyone who lives where the water isn't that warm yet is throwing and whats working the best for you. No luck on the wacky rigged senko yet for me..

[Mr SwimJig]

Jigs and shakey heads are working pretty good for me right now as well as swim jigs.

SJ

[tritz18]

Fishing in Eastern Mass my friends have had alot of luck on shallow crankbaits with rattles and jerkbaits. Stop and go retrieve for both baits.

[Bluebasser86]

Most of my fish so far this spring have been on jerkbaits or lighter spinnerbaits with a single colorado or oklahoma blade fished with a slow steady retrieve. Not getting as many fish on the spinnerbait but they have been quality fish for the most part. Most of the lakes around here have too much moss on the bottom and on the cover to fish a jig or worm very much. Anything that touches bottom gets coated pretty fast.

[skunked_again]

lipless cranks. jerk baits. 3/8oz white spinner baits.

[robsbell]

Mann's Sting Ray Grub in 3 inch avocado on 1/4 jighead with Smelly Jelly Bass Feast. I have also had good success fishing the Sting Ray Grub on a 1/8 Scrounger Head.

[bilgerat]

For the last three weekends I was tearing them up on Strike King Bitsy Pond Minnow crankbaits. Today it was a Strike King Bitsy Bug 1/16 oz jig with a NetBait Tiny Paca Chunk trailer.

Can you tell I like throwing small baits ?

[JigMe]

Had some luck with SK red eye lipless cranks, and weightless zoom trick worms.

[Jigfishn10]

1/2 oz spinnerbait just before the Nor'Easter hit on Thursday:

The snow started flying when I released her.

[Big Fish Rice]

Our waters in Spokane, Washington are still very cold at 40-45 degrees. I have gone out twice and haven't had any luck. The bite should be picking up soon though with 50 degree air temps rolling in this week!

[splitshot00]

Bass fishing has been slow out here the weather hasnt been to good. Had no luck on lures but caught one on a nightcrawler

[ChiCityBasser]

Had some luck on the rapala clackin crank in Helsinki Shad the other day

[Fat-G]

1/4 oz. spinnerbaits are really tearing them up right now. That is, if they're in the mood. Otherwise it's a finesse jig.

[Dean]

Goin out to a local pond in a few, wish me luck. Taking all above replies into consideration.

[zenyoungkoh]

3" YUM grub green pumpkin

[The Bassinator]

Ive been throwing a jerkbait, finesse jig, spinnerbait and some cranks both lipless and lipped no luck so far but the places Ive fished havent always been the easiest fishin holes. Just change it up once in a while from lure to lure, presentation to presentation, color to color and you'll land on something they want

[Fishmaster10]

spro little john (3-5ft and 8-9ft diver), cotton cordell big-o, spinnerbaits, lipless cranks, and 1/2oz jigs

[ChiCityBasser]

I was out sunday with the air temps here being around 67-71 degrees but water temps still pretty cold. I was trying out the Storm Jointed Minnow Stick/Madflash in a pond I fish at times. I caught 12 with the largest being about 2 LBS and the smallest being around 7-8". The lure was almost as big as the 7" and he had the back hook engulfed. Caught them ripping it out of the grass or on the pause and start. The color was the Blue Steel Shad

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fishing/Hard-Baits/Crankbaits%7C/pc/104793480/c/104732280/sc/104284080/Storm8482-Jointed-Minnow-Stick174-MadFlash/1164665.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ffishing-hard-baits-crankbaits%2Fstorm%2F_%2FN-1100320%2B1000004779%2FNe-1000004779%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104284080%3FWTz_l%3DSBC%253Bcat104793480%253Bcat104732280%26WTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNU&WTz_l=SBC%3Bcat104793480%3Bcat104732280%3Bcat104284080

[Dean]

I threw a square lipped shallow crank and had no luck. Also, this whole time i have had yellow power pro braid spooled up. I am wondering if the yellow line is taking part into the not catching of bass..

[ChiCityBasser]

I threw a square lipped shallow crank and had no luck. Also, this whole time i have had yellow power pro braid spooled up. I am wondering if the yellow line is taking part into the not catching of bass..

My brother has the same line spooled up and uses it all season long and hooks up plenty with it.

[Dean]

Thanks for the input ChiCityBasser, i just wanted to make sure that the line color was not a factor in this.

[Bankbeater]

Spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and jigs mostly. Plastics seem to be a hit or miss right now.

[ChiCityBasser]

No problem and I've only had one fish hit on a square billed crankbait and spet the whole time I was out fishing the jerkbait. I fished the jerkbait on spiderwire ultracast flouro braid with no flouro leader.

[Nayte]

No problem and I've only had one fish hit on a square billed crankbait and spet the whole time I was out fishing the jerkbait. I fished the jerkbait on spiderwire ultracast flouro braid with no flouro leader.

Here the water is about 45-55 degrees, only had luck on slow retrieves on Texas rigged creature baits. Chartreuse seems to be what they're eating.

[ChiCityBasser]

Here the water is about 45-55 degrees, only had luck on slow retrieves on Texas rigged creature baits. Chartreuse seems to be what they're eating.

Not sure on the water temp here but I'll get out today and try a chartreuse and white spinnerbait and see what kind of success I have with that today. I'm also gonna try the clackin rap crankbait as well as the jerkbait again.