Early Spring Bass Fishin

Bubba79 · 03-20-07, 04:26 PM

Whats your favorite way to bass fish in the early spring? Mine is slow-rollin a 3/4 ounce spinnerbait close to structure.

bassbooger · 03-20-07, 04:45 PM

I like to use a black 3/8 oz. spinnerbait and a 3/4 oz. silver and black rattle trap.

I have more luck with the trap than I do the spinnerbait though.

JB · 03-20-07, 05:31 PM

white and chartruse 3/8 spinnerbait, and 1/4 red cordell spot, also the
pig n jig in black and blue, and of course the black and silver/orange belly rattling rogue.

mymomisbecky · 03-20-07, 05:51 PM

grandads noodle, slow slow slow. ive fished as cold as 41 degrees and gotten bit. its a very slow presentation so they like it.

ILfishinman · 03-20-07, 06:02 PM

MMIB, i still have those two i bought last season, where do you fish them so early?

keithdog · 03-20-07, 07:29 PM

A Smithwick Rattlin Rouge in breem color is my first choice. Worked on the surface with a twitch twitch retireve near shallow cover. Then a white tamdem spinner with gold blades worked slow both shallow and mediums depths along the bottom. As the water warms a bit I'll start pitching a lizard rigged T style.

Wishing2BFishing · 03-21-07, 01:20 PM

I have a hard time limiting myself. I usually go out with my confidence lures including Senko, Green and white tube, Case Salty Shad, DT-4, and DT-6's.

mymomisbecky · 03-21-07, 01:28 PM

i fish them as soon as the ice is out (more or less) and i fish them all the way through the summer and fall. they just flat out work, everytime I fish.
This early? 3-4 feet of water leading to main channels and on those channel breaks where the fish are staging to move up to spawning grounds. once the water reaches 50 i move shallower. usually clear water this time of year, LONG casts. those fish you see roaming shallows that never bite. well, cast at them from a distance and they will.

youngbassman77 · 03-21-07, 01:32 PM

I agree with wishing2befishing... I,too, have a hard time limiting myself. But what I always end up using the most are tubes and senkos in a variety of colors t-rigged, and my fav...a 1/4 oz blue/silver rat l trap.

~YBM

dr.bass_hunter · 03-22-07, 06:11 AM

Strike King 3X Zero, Pumpkin w/red flake & June bug, also the Rappla JSR in Firetiger, new this spring, experimenting with a new chatterbait by Gambler.

Bassinkid · 03-22-07, 03:35 PM

welcome to the forum dr.bass. back to the subject i like slow rolling spinnerbaits, jig and pig, and a senko type worm pumpkin or watermelon color.

brushhog · 03-22-07, 03:40 PM

This will be my first year fishing early spring, Central New york we are still almost all iced over -so this thread has been great. Who is fishng ice out right now and what are you doing?

ihateforwards · 03-22-07, 06:48 PM

Twitch twitch, pause, reel and pause, twitch, twitch, pause, reel and pause with a shallow shad rap.

JB · 03-22-07, 07:04 PM

ya reel as you twitch, then stop during the pause

brushhog · 03-22-07, 07:44 PM

Thanks guys, hoping to get out this weekend...

brushhog · 03-22-07, 07:45 PM

Thanks guys, hoping to get out this weekend...

bobsmitter03 · 03-22-07, 08:24 PM

I like to throw a zoom brush hog in the spring, in the watermelon color, rigged weightless. I have had the best results twitching it slowly around cover.

jeremey4jesus · 03-22-07, 09:21 PM

I caught my early spring bass on a ghost shap rap with a feather tail at a slow retrieve with a few twitches. biggest this year was a 5 1/2lb large mouth.

ToPwAt'R GuY · 03-22-07, 09:40 PM

I throw zip lures in the spring.

ILfishinman · 03-23-07, 12:09 AM

i have zip lures, only thing ive caught on them is a nice sized perch nothing else

03-20-07, 04:26 PM	#1
Bubba79 BassFishin.Com Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5	Early Spring Bass Fishin Whats your favorite way to bass fish in the early spring? Mine is slow-rollin a 3/4 ounce spinnerbait close to structure.

03-20-07, 04:45 PM	#2
bassbooger BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, NC Posts: 316	I like to use a black 3/8 oz. spinnerbait and a 3/4 oz. silver and black rattle trap. I have more luck with the trap than I do the spinnerbait though. __________________ cast, reel, cast!!! Repeat if necessary!! Dallas, NC Last edited by bassbooger; 03-20-07 at 04:52 PM.

03-20-07, 06:02 PM	#5
ILfishinman BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Champaign, Illinois Posts: 706	MMIB, i still have those two i bought last season, where do you fish them so early? __________________ If light moves at 670616629 MPH, how fast is Dark? Bass count 07: lost count

03-22-07, 07:44 PM	#15
brushhog BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Whitesboro, NY Posts: 1,222	thanks for the hook help - Size? Thanks guys, hoping to get out this weekend...

03-22-07, 07:45 PM	#16
brushhog BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Whitesboro, NY Posts: 1,222	thanks Thanks guys, hoping to get out this weekend...

03-20-07, 05:31 PM	#3
JB BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8,655	white and chartruse 3/8 spinnerbait, and 1/4 red cordell spot, also the pig n jig in black and blue, and of course the black and silver/orange belly rattling rogue.

03-20-07, 05:51 PM	#4
mymomisbecky BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Des MOines, IA Posts: 336	grandads noodle, slow slow slow. ive fished as cold as 41 degrees and gotten bit. its a very slow presentation so they like it.

03-20-07, 07:29 PM	#6
keithdog BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: IN Posts: 8,308	A Smithwick Rattlin Rouge in breem color is my first choice. Worked on the surface with a twitch twitch retireve near shallow cover. Then a white tamdem spinner with gold blades worked slow both shallow and mediums depths along the bottom. As the water warms a bit I'll start pitching a lizard rigged T style.

03-21-07, 01:20 PM	#7
Wishing2BFishing BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Morgantown, Pa Posts: 1,254	I have a hard time limiting myself. I usually go out with my confidence lures including Senko, Green and white tube, Case Salty Shad, DT-4, and DT-6's.

03-21-07, 01:28 PM	#8
mymomisbecky BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Des MOines, IA Posts: 336	i fish them as soon as the ice is out (more or less) and i fish them all the way through the summer and fall. they just flat out work, everytime I fish. This early? 3-4 feet of water leading to main channels and on those channel breaks where the fish are staging to move up to spawning grounds. once the water reaches 50 i move shallower. usually clear water this time of year, LONG casts. those fish you see roaming shallows that never bite. well, cast at them from a distance and they will.

03-21-07, 01:32 PM	#9
youngbassman77 BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 111	I agree with wishing2befishing... I,too, have a hard time limiting myself. But what I always end up using the most are tubes and senkos in a variety of colors t-rigged, and my fav...a 1/4 oz blue/silver rat l trap. ~YBM

03-22-07, 06:11 AM	#10
dr.bass_hunter BassFishin.Com Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1	Strike King 3X Zero, Pumpkin w/red flake & June bug, also the Rappla JSR in Firetiger, new this spring, experimenting with a new chatterbait by Gambler.

03-22-07, 03:35 PM	#11
Bassinkid BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 103	welcome to the forum dr.bass. back to the subject i like slow rolling spinnerbaits, jig and pig, and a senko type worm pumpkin or watermelon color.

03-22-07, 03:40 PM	#12
brushhog BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Whitesboro, NY Posts: 1,222	This will be my first year fishing early spring, Central New york we are still almost all iced over -so this thread has been great. Who is fishng ice out right now and what are you doing?

03-22-07, 06:48 PM	#13
ihateforwards BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: A pond, Somewhere in Carmel, Indiana Posts: 164	Twitch twitch, pause, reel and pause, twitch, twitch, pause, reel and pause with a shallow shad rap.

03-22-07, 07:04 PM	#14
JB BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8,655	ya reel as you twitch, then stop during the pause

03-22-07, 08:24 PM	#17
bobsmitter03 BassFishin.Com Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 35	I like to throw a zoom brush hog in the spring, in the watermelon color, rigged weightless. I have had the best results twitching it slowly around cover.

03-22-07, 09:21 PM	#18
jeremey4jesus BassFishin.Com Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: va beach Posts: 1	shad rap I caught my early spring bass on a ghost shap rap with a feather tail at a slow retrieve with a few twitches. biggest this year was a 5 1/2lb large mouth.

03-22-07, 09:40 PM	#19
ToPwAt'R GuY BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: missouri Posts: 930	I throw zip lures in the spring.

03-23-07, 12:09 AM	#20
ILfishinman BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Champaign, Illinois Posts: 706	i have zip lures, only thing ive caught on them is a nice sized perch nothing else __________________ If light moves at 670616629 MPH, how fast is Dark? Bass count 07: lost count

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