What are your guys' favorite pre-spawn lures. Mine are buzzbait, magdraft, and spinnerbait. Just wanna hear your guys favorites. 

Spinnerbait, jig, walking bait, jerkbait, wacky rig. 

Jerkbait and chatterbait.  Slow on both.

Jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, spinnerbait, chatterbait, lipless & square bill crankbaits, jerkbait.

jerkbait

This year my favorite baits have been a spinnerbait and a swim jig.

Plastic swimbaits!!

Keitech  and a 4 inch wacky senko.

For this year it’s been lipless cranks and swim jigs. 

Chatterbait

Squarebill 

Traps

Light Shaky Head

Mojo Rig

 

This year it’s been jerk bait, lipless, 2.8-3.5 swim baits, chatter bait in that order.  
 

previous years chatter bait,  shad rap , and Ned rig 

Rat-L-Trap Toledo Gold

 

Liz-zard 

Historically it’s been spinnerbait and jig for me. This season I put a little more emphasis on the jig and I’m not disappointed 

Gliders, Gliders, and jerkbaits.

Slow-rolled spinnerbait, jig, trap, and jerkbait are whats on deck in prespawn .  Apparently the A-rig is winning tournaments in my area during prespawn, and I need to commit to purchasing and mastering them....as much as I don't want to.

Jerkbait

Wacky -worm

Jig

Chatterbait

 

#1. custom hair jig w/pork trailer.

#2. 8” & 68 Hudd Trout Swimbait.

Today I only use #1.

Tom

Spinnerbaits , crankbaits, jigs , Texas-rigs. I like to cover water "junk fish" the banks, creeks, coves  and use whatever lure does a good job.

Shaky head.  It's the closest thing to a written and notarized guarantee that you'll find in your tackle box during the prespawn. 

 

 

Senko, finesse swim jig, and a compact spinnerbait like an SV-3.

swimjig

jerkbait

little hair jig

small underspin

 

Big jig

glidebait

chatterbait

8" hudd/SG

 

 

I love starting with a 3/4oz swimjig w/ a 4.5" paddletail because I can cover water while maintaining bottom contact at a medium retrieve from inches to 20 fow.  I can also speed up or slow down to get some clues on depth, relation to breaks, and wether they seem to be looking up or down.  If they're smashing while swimming, I add in the big baits, or biting while tracing the bottom, I add in dragging a big jig or hopping a chatterbait.  If I get no feedback, I work the jerkbait, hair jig, and underspin to check if I need a smaller profile and/or slower cadence.

 

scott

3-4" leech on a sled jig. GP, Chartreuse, or black. Deadly. 

A lot depends on where you are fishing .Around these parts,  pre spawn  equals dirty water . Dirty water equals shallow cover . Shallow cover equals spinnerbaits . Connect the dots right , fish are caught.