After a long (and cold) winter, spring finally emerges, and so do I from a long salmon/steelhead season.  I'm feeling kind of rusty from spring 2013 (mostly because fourteen out of fifteen bass i hooked came off...).I seem to have better luck around autumn. But i'm looking for some pointers on how to keep these postspawn bass on.  Is it something i'm doing, or is it inevitable?  

What kinds of lures are you having problems with?

Yes. Glad spring and the pollen have arrived.

 

Regarding you losing so many fish, are you losing them on treble hook baits?

 

Give us some more data and maybe we can give you some suggestions to consider.

Where are you losing the fish? On the hookset? During the fight? At shore / the boat?

And as others have said, what types of hooks?

during spring, i mostly use weedless frogs in the morning, and i do wait a few fractions of a second longer with the frogs like i have been told, in mid morning to early afternoon i use crankbaits (with treble hooks), and anytime later than that i use the best working lure that i had used before that.

Where is this "spring" you speak of?

Must be a southern thing cuz it aint in north central PA

Where is this "spring" you speak of?

Must be a southern thing cuz it aint in north central PA

It is def. a southern thing. Next week it's supposed to be close to 90 they say. I had a long enough winter down here in NC. I feel sorry for northern states.

No Spring in Delaware

You can get frog specific trailer hooks.

Spring who?

no spring here in Ohio. This weather really needs to go away already. Can't even hit the river from all the rain.

no spring here in Ohio. This weather really needs to go away already. Can't even hit the river from all the rain.

You can send all the rain you want down this way...lol...the lakes are 3 to 5 feet lower than normal in my area !

There is no spring in Wis. Going from winter to summer (Ihope). Today is the opening day of fishing season and the lakes in the northern 1/3 of the state still have ice.