I fish crankbaits more in the prespawn than any other time. Thats why I like so many. Heres my top 5 choices put into early prespawn and late prespawn.

-55-really cold or cold front

jointed shad rap-great wiggle secret bait of mine most people dont have

CC Shad-another secret has lots of thump but poorly made. 2 out 3 need serious tuning and 1 out of 5 cant be tuned right ever. Still a great bait and worth it.

Wiggle Wart-what needs to be said great bait just flat works and is different from my other choices

+55-give or take

Speed trap-nice bait great for running banks dives just right depth for running and gunning

Shad rap-I like it over the jointed one for faster speeds

DB3-my choice for big fish

All the baits work anytime but usually these are the different times I go to different ones. All these baits are good coldwater baits but some work better faster or slower.

So what are your favorites?

You can't go wrong with a lipless anything during this time.

Last year I had a lot of luck with manns minus-one.

I havn't tried this yet but i've heaerd creditable people tell me that the spro little john will be very very productive

1. Risto Rap

2. Shad Rap

3. Bomber Flat A

4. Lipless Crank

5. Jointed Shad Rap

definitely lipless. Besides that, my favorites are:

water temp. around 50

-Bomber Fat Free Shad

-Norman Deep Little N

-Rapala DT 9 Flat series

-Bandit Flat Max Deep

-Bomber Deep Flat A

High 50's

-Fat Free Shad

-Rapala DT 6

-Spro Little John

RattleTraps!!! Besides them the only cranks I throw in spring are the Storm Wiggle Wart

Rapala Shad Rap

1-Rapala Shad Rap

2-Bomber Square A

3-Norman Mad N

4-XCalibur Xr50

5-Rattlin Rapala

6-Strike King Red Eye Shad

Falcon

Rapala rattlin rap redfire craw

Bomber model 6a redfire craw

Zoom WEC Hicky

Flat-Shad Classic PT

Storm Wiggle Wart

Rapala DT6 and Shad Rap

Cordell Super Spot / Air Viper Risebacker/ Jackall TN/70

I have had very good luck with two baits

1.) Rapala DT -4

2.) Bomber model A

manns baby 1-, bandit footloose, storm subwart.

-Fact CB 3

-baby 1 minus

-red eye shad

My new favorite is the DT-4 a buddy and I caught and released about 55 fish today over a 4 hour period on a Bluegill, Baby Bass and Shad colored baits.