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Springtime Strategies
2008-04-14
Springtime has finally arrived so it's time to dust off the boat, restring your rods and go fishing. This time of year the bass are ready to spawn. They are waiting for the right conditions to rollup before moving out of their staging areas and onto the beds.
During this time of year I always like to keep a Lunker Lure buzzbait handy. I use this bait to comb the shorelines looking for areas where the big girls moved. If this approach fails, I'll usually change game plans and go to a ˝-ounce Hawg Caller Spinner bait in white and chartreuse. I target deeper water, spawning coves, and points that the fish use for staging areas.
If these two approaches lack the quality fish I'm trying to target then I'll tie on a bottom bait such as the Lunker Lure Ball Headed Jig. This bait allows me to target even deeper water and slow my presentation trying to trigger the pre spawn females into biting. I'll also fish back over the two previous areas and start working my way further out into the main lake checking to see if the fish have left their winter haunts.
Once I get a few bites I immediately start targeting other areas of the same depth trying to locate unique features on that particular structure. It's important to remember that the further and deeper into the main lake you fish, you will probably be dealing with schools of fish rather than individual fish that you're likely to encounter in the shallow water.
Keep in mind in the springtime fish movements are triggered by warm water temperatures produced by days of sunshine and moon phases. If you locate a school of quality fish and return later to find it high and dry, good chances are they started the migration toward shallow water for the spawn and will require a small adjustment to be successful.
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