What is your favorite lure for spawning Bass? As we slowly creep closer to spring, I couldn't help but ask. I'll typically throw a jig, fluke, or scented Texas-rigged craw. Always something that can stay in the strike zone for a decent time. I'm also going to be trying some realistic bluegill lures. particularly the Berkley Gilly, since bedding bass will eat them happily this time of year.

I always start with a Rage Bug then cycle through to a Sweet Beaver, Rage Craw or a Zoom Lizard depending on how she reacts or if I’m targeting the female or the male first.

Always white regardless

Mike

Zoom lizard, fluke, jigs and spinnerbait.

Last year " prespawn " was actually catching them on a Mepps #3.

Frog/Worm/Jig all work really well for me especially in the early spring when I can’t see fish because water isn’t clear yet but I know they’re there.

Depends where i am fishing, but i do like me grinding rocks with a red craw squarebill.

Where I am from ,I rarely see bedding bass.Maybe I'm just not good at seeing them or the water is to dirty, probably a little of both. I fish areas where I think they might be. These have been my most productive two lures over the years. a spinnerbait with Oklahoma bladees and a Bomber prop bait.

In my part of the world a Zoom 8" lizard in Junebug is the ticket. Throw it past the bed and worked slow, then slow down some more!!!

Pitching to bedded fish I’m with Mike L. The other thing I’ll throw into the mix is a 3” Ned. They are small enough that when a fish picks it up it is hard for them to grab just a claw or tail. They basically have to get the hook in their mouth.

If I’m fishing where i know there are fish on beds but I’m not targeting beds, it’s a vibrating jig, a spinnerbait, or a 6” Magdraft depending on the cover.

If we’re talking smallmouth then just go with Ned, 3” paddle tail, and a walking bait on top.

Big old plastic lizards. The bigger the better. Nothing gets them more fired up then a 11” lizard crawling thru the bed

Rage Bug or Zoom medium size Brush Hog . T rigged or C Rigged

For years & as previously mentioned, I’d throw the same as everybody else when it came to bedding bass: Texas rigged lizards, craws, creature baits, etc. And they will work no doubt.

But something I found in the last 4 years is the power of a finesse Texas rig. Lotta times when I couldn’t get a bedding bass to react to the usual offerings, I started throwing a big TRD and a lightweight 1/10 oz jig head - not the usual Ned Rig jighead, but the ZMan finesse bulletz jighead that’s weedless. It gives me the ability to shake that Big TRD right in front of their face in a subtle way (while remaining mostly weedless) & it always seems to get their attention. It might take me 30 mins to get a bass to bite, but if I can see them react, I know it’ll work. This is usually after repeated casts with a jig, craw, lizard, creature that a bass wouldn’t even look at while in shaking it right under their nose.

It's the only time of year a lizard will work for me and it's top gun in early spawn...by a long margin. Zoom lizard in junebug or green pumpkin depending upon water clarity and cloud cover.

Zoom lizard, wacky senko, or a jig. Sometimes a small crankbait will fire them up as well.

Some type of moving bait works best for me. Spinnerbaits, Swim jigs, and crankbaits are what I start with.

“Big old plastic lizards. The bigger the better. Nothing gets them more fired up then a 11” lizard crawling thru the bed”

Sounds interesting. I caught my PB last year on a 8” Zoom but who makes a 11” Lizard. I’ve been slinging lizards for 40 years and definitely one of my all time favorite baits especially for big bass. Would love to give them a try.

John

I have two that I rely on when they're making beds to when they're on them. The first is a small topwater. I like the Crazy Shad because those blades spin with the slightest twitch and if you let one sit above a bed long enough one of those blades is going to turn enough to elicit a strike. Prior to actually bedding, you can work it like a jerkbait.

The other is a tube bait because of it's compact size, if a fish goes to move it off a bed, chances are good that it has the hook in its mouth. On a light jighead, I can work it traditionally, or like a Fluke.

When specifically tageting bedding bass I rely on a Smithwick Rogue or a Cordell Redfin in Gold/Orange Belly and either a 6-8" Zoom Lizard or a 4" Salt Craw.

6"-8" lizard or a Strike King 4" Rodent for me.

Zoom Lizard or a 6th sense Wallhalla

If I'm just around spawning areas but don't think they're on beds I'll use a spinnerbait/swimjig/bladed jig to search and get active fish to bite. Whatever I think best imitates a bluegill on that day and conditions right on the edge of spawning flats. If I'm fishing deeper or shallower I'll usually go to a jig.

I don't often fish for them on purpose, but I've had a lot of luck when I do just pitching a white Ned rig onto their beds.

Ill fish in bedding areas. I've found a mojo rigs with creature baits that suspend off the bottom to be really effective. Not too many can stand a palmetto bug just sitting in front of their face. Ill fish a few casts in bedding areas, but really don't like to target spawning females anymore.

I refuse to target beds I can see but the last few years it's been the Berkley Gilly. Thing seems to anger bass during the spawn.

If I can see the bed I steer clear of it.

If conditions are right a F13 black and silver and or blue and white original floating top water rapala,