Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “prespawn”
The key to pre spawn smallmouth bass fishing in rivers is to think critically about where they spent the winter, and where they spawn – and then locating holding places along that route. In many rivers, bass winter in the channel – but in areas out of the current. Places like the backs of wing dams, in deeper holes behind …
Pre-spawn is prime time for targeting big bass. They’re at their seasonal heaviest, they’re up shallow, and they can be extremely aggressive – as they’re actively trying to put on weight before the spawn. If you get on the right school, you can have a day to remember. The flipside of that coin is that pre-spawn bass can be tough …
Like many other freshwater species, the warming temperatures and longer days of spring mean one thing to crappies: it’s time to get ready to spawn. In preparation, this time of year huge schools of early season crappie start moving toward the shallow bays, flats, and undeveloped shorelines that they will eventually spawn on later in the spring. Because they’re on …
You don’t have to be a fisheries biologist to figure out that bass love to eat crayfish. All you need to do is to walk around your local tackle shop and take a look at how many baits are shaped like or painted to resemble the little freshwater crustaceans.
