Mine is the rattletrap in the grass, along with black and blue jig/pig.
Eakins jig w/super chunk jr trailer
Suspending jerkbait (LC, Rogue, Husky Jerk)
Allen
Jigs, Rat-l-traps, Flukes
Lizzards!!!!!!!!!!
Rat-L-Traps and C-Rigged Fluke
a roostertail or blue fox in line spinner will catch any fish any time ;D
Horney toads all spring and summer. If you don't fish with them you are missing out.
Zoom Super Fluke - 1/2oz Rat-L-Trap - Plastic Craw w/1/8 oz Bullet Sinker
Roger
Jigs, spinnerbaits, big 12" worms.
QuotePlastic Craw w/1/8 oz Bullet Sinker
Roger
Highly over looked
LC Pointer 100
Storm WiggleWart
#7 Shad Rap
Poe's RC3
1/2 oz double willow white bladed spinnerbait
Homeade Eakins-style jig
Gambler 5" Hibdon Flipping Tube
..........hmmmm....hard not to keep going - so many things work really well this time of year
Jig n pig, rattle traps, 8 inch black lizard, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits.
My most productive pre-spawn baits:
Carolina rigged plastics
Jigs
Texas-rigged Plastics
Crankbaits
Lipless Crankbaits
Suspending Jerkbaits
Spinnerbaits
Which one all depends on lake and conditions.
Brad
QuoteQuotePlastic Craw w/1/8 oz Bullet Sinker
Roger
Highly over looked
Agreed!
I've got a drawer full of Outkast Swim Jigs and Pro Staff jigs,
a rather expensive anthology of dust collectors :-[
Roger
T-rigged creatures!
spiderjigs
Rapala DT-6 and LC Crank at first then maybe a week later lizards.
White spinnerbait with a gold willowleaf blade over a smaller silver Colorado blade.
1/2 oz white-chart spinnerbait single #5 gold willowleaf
T-Rig 8" lizard
1/2 oz Rattle-trap (craw pattern)
bandit 100's and super flukes
T-rigged 6" Zoom Lizard
T-rigged 6" lizard (Watermellon, junebug, black/blue)
Spinnerbait (1/4, 3/8 oz, mostly white/chartreuse)
Jerkbait (hard or soft), small to medium size
Topwater, if the water warmer than 45-50 degrees and the weather is on a warming trend.
Spinnerbait is my goto lure for pre-spawn ,but if you have stable weather for a couble of days and the water dep is over 55degrees then a white/chart buzzbait is a killer
I can't believe no one else has put this out there. Chatterbait
QuoteMine is the rattletrap in the grass, along with black and blue jig/pig.
Im with Clayton on this and i bet it is because we live in the samearea.
Spinnerbait... no contest.
up here: hair jig 1/8-1/4oz, cabin creek spider parts, lc dd pointers, jig/pig, robo worm dropshot
QuoteHorney toads all spring and summer. If you don't fish with them you are missing out.
Amen.
B