First thing you throw in the spring?

[DVT Mike]

Suspending Jerks, small hair and spider jigs

[bassinbob]

If it's nice and sunny, a buzzbait. If not lipless cranks or a sweet beaver t-rigged.

[Bass Assault]

A lizard in junebug or tequila sunrise.

[SaminVa]

This is what I.ve learned from an x -pro... after ice out generally speaking there is NO thermocline... the water at the suface is colder than the water on the bottom... thus the ice on the surface... the water on the bottom is warmer & is more akin to the fishes comfort zone.... that's why I have used the silver buddy style bait & will use a jigging spoon as well...that is if you consider Jan, Feb. spring fishing... As oflast weekend the water temp here in central va is 44-45*. That being said some bass have been located in shallower water... My son caugth a nice 2# on a jerkbait... but they're not quite commited to the shallows yet.

[ruasoonerfan2]

1st-- Rat L Traps
2nd --Spinnerbait
3rd-- Crankbait
4th-- Jig

[Micropterus coosae]

Cordell SuperSpot
Handtied 1/4 oz. jig

[pig n jig]

Here it is cold during ice out so you hit the creeks that run into the lakes about mid April or ice out.I use the small sweetbeavers and small ugly otters and of course the 3.5"Yamamoto tube in #33 color.If the water is 40 degrees or better I'll add spinnerbaits, rapala DT4, DT6 crankbaits to the mix.A red or orange rattle trap is hard to beat when they're working.They don't always work but they are dynamite when they are.Reel the trap along ticking the old lily pad stems and crank as fast as you can and still tick the stems sticking up in the creekbed.If they hit spinnerbaits, reel the trap fast and forget about ticking the stems, there is no such thing as being able to reel it too fast.You want to have that trap moving faster than you would think would work.I like the sugoi traps from Gary Yamamoto but I'll use the old Bill lewis traps in the chrome red or discontinued #27 ? color(orange/brownish backed craw pattern color)I like super spots rayburn red or tomato.I'll take a chrome trap and color it red with a sharpie pen in a pinch.

If I'm fishing the main lake,I'll use deep diving stickbaits, suspended jerkbaits, shad raps off the hard breaks of the lake , especially near the spawning flats.The fish will be suspended out off the breaks of the flats over deep water. sometimes they chase bait up on the flat and I like to throw a red or orange rattle trap around the flats as well, since I'm there.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by WatterBoy

"Spring" is a relative term since I can't fish for bass until Memorial Day weekend here. That being said, I had my best opening weekend ever last year using 5" and 7" senkos (either plain wacky-rigged or wacky-rigged on a dropshot) and also some topwater (buzzbait, money hound, frogs) lures depending on the location. I plan to start with those lures again this year -- once May 28 rolls around -- and see what happens!

Same here, although Bass season opens April 30th.
By that time, unless it;s been a really cold Spring, the first things out of my tackle bag are spinnerbaits and Aruku Shads.

Topwaters were big right off the bat last Spring, but we had great weather leading up to the opener

[BigBassin144]

I forgot to mention the thing I throw before anything else:

Rocks at the ice too see how thin it's getting!

BB

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by BigBassin144

I forgot to mention the thing I throw before anything else:

Rocks at the ice too see how thin it's getting!

BB

Haha! There's still shanties up on our lakes ;(

[BigBassin144]

Originally Posted by MallenManson

Haha! There's still shanties up on our lakes ;(

At the end of that warm spell we had, we still had a good 6" of ice, but you had to jump over some open water along the shore to get to it.

BB

[Tall]

A baby Huie fit, cuzz it seems hard for me to hook em early with the water still cold then a lot of the lures already posted. Same result for the most part.

[bcklash]

Helicopter Lures from Bama Seaver.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by bcklash

Helicopter Lures from Bama Seaver.

His favorite show is still Air Wolf

[Bassboss]

Originally Posted by BigBassin144

I forgot to mention the thing I throw before anything else:

Rocks at the ice too see how thin it's getting!

BB

I've been doing that too biggins, fish never seem to hit though, I can't imagine why?

[Embrey]

i keep all these tied on mostly too....sadly,none of it has worked...ever...lol