I will be fishing the potomac out of hope springs on april 23rd. Can anyone tell me what the best baits will be for then ?

all depends how the weather stays with this last weekends rain and hail storm it killed the fishing for me on sunday but saturday before the rain hit i was getting LMB on lipless cranks on the bottom but that late in april they should be in pre-spawn so you'll have to mix and match see where they are on the water column by then and as far as color not sure how the water is up there down in fredricksburg water still murky either on the river fishing for shad or out on the bounds and resiviors pretty much murky all around.

id say just try some different jigs in the shallows try to find some nests they may already be in the shallows or migrating from the old river channels and holes to the shallows. crawfish, or deep rattling crank baits for a reaction bite.

hope i helped somewhat ... lol but good luck to you let me know how it goes.